"Why do you think michael didn't work to hide all this from you? Before he passed away?" she asks. "I don't think men think they're going to die sometimes," the writer says. She burns his ashes, then releases him into a Michigan lake. 'You already need to know what you know,' her friend tells her.
Susan Messing and Michael McCarthy were a beloved couple in the Chicago comedy scene. Michael passed away from cancer in 2020. As part of Susan’s grieving process, she began to sift through the 50 or so boxes of his writing that he had left behind for her. What followed was a complicated grief.
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