Tag: mother
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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…
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Down the hall
There were two beds in my mother’s room. She was in one. That night, I was in the other. I had driven up from Madera after my own treatment, the shot still working its way through me, that particular sick heaviness settling in the way it always did a couple of hours after. I walked…
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Normal Brain
I am driving again. Madera to San Jose, San Jose to Madera. Central Valley to the Bay and back, the same road, the same hours, until I stop seeing it.At one end is my own treatment. At the other is my mother, who is stage four now. The cancer is in her bones. I am…
Whatever Held 