Chapter 35 Camellia

• After burying my mother in the family cemetery, we came back to Crescent City, home, my new home.
• The siblings have been very supportive, but I don't like being around anyone now. I keep thinking about how we found my mother. I look at the pictures the siblings managed to collect. They even got some of my mother's jewelry for me. I feel profound sadness as I look at the diamond necklace she wore for my sixteenth birthday. She was so happy that day—she always was.
• " Hey, love,"