At Mother’s Day Dinner My Family Made A Decision For Me And The Next Morning Everything Changed

of me that had been absorbing impact and calling it family loyalty for thirty-seven years?

“For this version of us,” I said. “Yes.”

She nodded once, slowly, like someone receiving information they had been half expecting and still weren’t ready for. Then she was gone.

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