Tag: mom
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In it with me
During treatment I slept on the couch downstairs a lot. I’d like to say it was for practical reasons, and some of it was, but the honest reason is that I was more comfortable alone during that time. So the couch became mine. There were a lot of nights where I felt sick and couldn’t…
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The Fancy One
My youngest is the fancy one. That’s the shorthand I’ve always used for her, and it fits, though it means more than it sounds like. She loves beautiful things. She loves aesthetics, the look and feel of a life well arranged. Records spinning, a good show on, something coming together under her hands. If you…
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Z for Zorro
I found out I had cancer almost by accident, and I told my mother about it almost as an afterthought, which is to say I told her after it was already over. I was twenty-five. There was a mole on my calf that had started to flake and darken, and I hadn’t thought much of…
