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My Mom Gave My Kids Sleeping Bags While My Sister’s Children Took the Guest Room and Something Finally Broke

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I have always counted things. Streetlights on the way out of a neighborhood. Steps from one end of a room to another. Marshmallows in a cup of hot chocolate. I started counting when I was nine, on a night when my father was in the hospital and my mother packed Ashley’s pink backpack and called our aunt to come pick her up, and then looked continue reading …

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