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I could feel her pain radiating through the small cabin like heat from a furnace. “Mom,” I started, but she held up one weathered hand.
“Don’t,” she said quietly. “Just don’t, Charles. I’m fine.” But she wasn’t fine.
I could see it in the way her shoulders curved inward, like she was trying to make herself smaller, invisible. It was the same posture continue reading …
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