Read the following context and answer the question.
Context: This evening I am going through boxes of old letters my Mom saved . I mailed the boxes to myself when I was cleaning out her house about a year and a half ago . There was so much shredding I had to do and she had saved everything .
Question: Why did the narrator wait a year and a half to go through the boxes of letters ?
Answer:


Going through her mother 's things rehashed the sorrow and loss of her death .