What did school never explain to you?

What a return actually is, what the software is asking, and the handful of documents that answer 90% of it.

The breakup, the roommate talk, the 'we need to discuss mom.' A structure for the conversations everyone postpones — saying the hard thing without detonating the relationship.

Certificates, accounts, subscriptions, the house, the phone plan — the paperwork of a death, in order, for the person who has to do it while grieving.