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My Brother’s Wife Returned From Black Friday Shopping to Find Him Dead. But I Think She Was Responsible.

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. I believe that my brother’s wife killed him. On Thanksgiving, when they were over for dinner, my brother complained of pain and swelling in his calf muscle. My sister-in-law dismissed it. She said he had probably just “pulled a muscle.” But my brother said he couldn’t think of anything he had done that might have caused that. The pain continued all afternoon, and while he was hobbling around, he mentioned several times...