This story originally published on June 16, 2020. It has been updated with new information. My mom, Deborah, passed away in May.It wasn’t COVID-19. Complications of complications from the cancer that she was cured of years earlier compounded in her body until she just needed to rest. She died in the hospital, and my sister and I weren’t even allowed in the building.Over the past few years she had given away or thrown out many of her belongings. She left a house full of furniture with my ex-stepfather, and four years ago, when she decamped from Texas for her native New Mexico, she tossed out mountains of old papers and clothes that no longer fit her new, gaunt body.She had been taken to the hospital…The post A Parent’s Problematic Pandemic Bequest appeared first on Texas Monthly.