Wife Believed Her Husband was Dead, Until Daughter Saw Him with Another School Girl! They tell you grief is a routine: the manila folder with a death certificate, the casseroles cooling on the porch, the way a house learns to keep its own quiet. Five years taught Olivia Mitchell that you can live beside absence the way you live beside a highway—always there, sometimes deafening, sometimes a hum. She kept Michael’s photo on the bookshelf and their daughter Emma’s schedule pinned to the fridge. Li