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of them.
Only the ones where my presence helped.
At one service, a mother named Ellen held my hands and said, “I used to be ashamed that I wanted to see him.”
I told her, “That shame was never yours.”
I said that often.
To other mothers.
To Quincy.
To myself.
Violet grew.
She learned to say Mama after months of speech therapy, the word coming out softer and continue reading …
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