Haunted by three suicides and an overdose, my mother found companionship with someone with an unlikely hobby.
When I asked my mom about her new boyfriend, Roderick, she told me he was a college professor who wrote beautiful poetry. When I mentioned Roderick to my nephew, though, he told me that Roderick had a side gig—as a ghostbuster. “Yeah, he apparently communicates with troubled spirits and helps them have a more peaceful afterlife,” he informed me. I broached this with my mother because … how could I not. She didn’t love that. She stressed that the ghost stuff wasn’t his main job.
I should have let it go at that, but … no. I started to remind her that she didn’t believe in the afterlife. She looked at me with a glare so piercing that I knew the conversation was over. , a documentary that deals with suicide loss and life after an attempt, was one way to turn my pain into purpose.Almost 20 years after the deaths of my father and brother, and about five years after my sister’s, my mother set aside her innate skepticism and listened with interest to Roderick’s ghost stories. I don’t think my mother ever bought into the ghostbusting racket—even though there were plenty of potential ghosts rattling around her house, she never used his services.
My father had been dead for 20 years. Was everyone around here a ghostbuster? When I told him my father wasn’t alive, he looked confused and turned to a seemingly clueless Roderick sipping his coffee, then back at me. Beginning to put things together, he hesitantly asked me if Dr. Geist was my stepfather. “No! I just met him five minutes ago,” I told him.It turns out Roderick—Dr. Geist—had introduced himself as Jackie’s husband so he could access information about her prognosis.
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