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son. I paused. I let the number hang in the air.
And I want you to know something. I would have loved you for free. All you had to do was show up and be happy for me.
That’s it. That was the price of keeping me. And you couldn’t pay it.
My mother made a sound. Not a word, a sound that came from somewhere deeper than language. Her face collapsed.
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