The Grandmother Who Thought Her Story Was Over

In 2014, Margaret Alston sat alone in a duplex in Macon, Georgia, convinced her life had narrowed to its final, quiet chapter. Her husband Carl had died of pancreatic cancer eighteen months earlier. Her only son had overdosed in Atlanta the year before that. She stopped attending Vineville Baptist. She unplugged the phone. She told her neighbor Deb she was "just waiting for the Lord to come get me."…