Carolina and Me

In Carolina, Julia Stiles' character Carolina's grandmother, played by Shirley MacLaine, dies in a car accident. Carolina loses her composure when attempting to reclaim her grandma's things at the pound.

"I never got to say goodbye!" She cries.

I never got to say goodbye to my grandma either. I remember opening her closet a year later, taking mental inventory of her things, taking in the scent, longing for her presence. Incredulous that she was gone.

And so i also cry.