Chapter 3

I didn't get to see Mom one last time.

By the time I arrived at the hospital, Mom's body was already covered with a white sheet.

Walker stood off to the side, his eyes rimmed with tears as he told me what had happened.

Mom had a sudden heart attack this morning while she was out picking vegetables.

After Dad passed away, Mom was left to hold the family together all by herself.

She learned to drive a big truck and took over Dad's vegetable business.

Every day, she'd head out before dawn to pick vegetables from fields dozens of…