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it could not be recast as dependence.
My mother touched her hand.
“That’s enough.”
Then, to me, “We are not the enemy here.”
It was such a perfect family sentence.
So polished.
So detached from the truth that saying it probably felt to her like moral effort.
I looked down at the packet again.
The signature pages were already tabbed.
They hadn’t just expected continue reading …
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