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the if. I have learned to notice the if.
Mom, I didn’t feel left out. I was left out. There’s a difference.
She paused. Then she changed the subject. She talked about the weather.
She talked about a recipe. I let her. I did not push.
I had decided somewhere in the last two weeks that I was done teaching my mother how to be sorry. She was going to learn continue reading …
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