Uncle Saul had wanted to, but he’d forgotten in all the food truck madness that it was Spirit Night. That meant a family obligation for both of us. Neither one of us was looking forward to it, but no one with family missed Spirit Night. All of the Chase family from the 1700s forward was buried in the same cemetery, Our Lady of Perpetuity. The cemetery was put in during the 1800s, but earlier family members had been disinterred and moved there. Every year on Spirit Night people visited with their dead loved ones leaving candy, cookies, beads, and other throws. Sometimes you’d see colorful masks on tombstones or pictures. You could leave whatever you wanted to honor the dead. My mother’s family, the Olivers, weren’t from Mobile originally. Their dead were scattered from here to Atlanta. Thank goodness! It would’ve been impossible to visit with all of them on Spirit Night. Daddy had texted me that he’d send a car for me and Uncle Saul.
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