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My Mother

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heavy eyes. “Daddy, can we go home?”

He swallowed hard. “As soon as your lungs are ready, pumpkin.”

That became our whole life.

Waiting for her lungs to be ready.

My mother arrived on Saturday morning wearing a cream-colored coat, gold earrings, and the expression of a woman inconvenienced by someone else’s emergency.

She brought no balloon. No stuffed continue reading …

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