Becky Gonzalez can smell the leather jacket her daughter Kasandra Perkins was wearing when she hugged her goodbye for the last time.
Gonzalez vividly remembers her own eyes watering up, just like they always did when Kasi was leaving to fly back to Kansas City.
This time, her daughter had flown home to Texas after asking her mother to arrange a five-generation photo with Kasi’s great grandmother, her grandmother, her mother, herself and her then months-old daughter, Zoey.
“At the time, I thought it was because her great grandmother was in her 90s,” Becky Gonzalez said in an e-mail interview.