Inside Matt Wood’s bedroom closet is a dark-colored canvas tote bag that he can’t look inside.
“I just put it in the closet and I haven’t been able to go through it since,” he said.
It took him nearly a year to put pictures of his wife, Susan Wood, back upright on his desk at Unum. The framed photographs had lain facedown. Seeing her smiling face only brought tears.
One day he’ll open the bag, take out the things that his wife carried the day she died. But a little more than a year after her death, life is still a series of baby steps.
There is one item he carries from the bag.