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have to see me this way.
I would sit on the edge of her bed and say you are not trouble, you are my mother, stop apologizing for needing me.
Once, very late, after a bad pain day, she held my wrist and said: “Don’t let anyone make you small just because you know how to endure.”
At the time I thought she was delirious from medication.
Later I realized she continue reading …
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