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"I know you don't love me." Those were my daughter's last words before she died. She was twenty-six years old. She had stage four stomach cancer. And yet she'd saved up sixty-six thousand dollars, bought an apartment, and kept a ledger of every favor anyone had ever done for her. She left it all to me, the mother who never really cared. After she was gone, I opened her grudge notebook, page after page of small, bitter grievances. But on the last page, she had written: [Mom, I wrote down so many grudges, so why can't I bring myself to hate you?]