They Took the SUV Grandma Gifted Me and Gave It to My Sister Until She Responded

not fully accounted for that harm but is not entirely absent either. We talk. We talk carefully. There are moments when I see the mother I might have had if different choices had been made, brief and genuine and unexplained. I do not wait for her to become that mother. I have stopped organizing my life around that expectation.

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