About how proud my mother was.Friendship
About how sorry she was that her illness had changed the way she felt and behaved.
About how she hoped I never believed she was a burden.
Then came the part that changed everything.
My mother had written about feeling distant from people near the end of her life.
She mentioned that some conversations had made her uncomfortable.
She mentioned noticing that certain people seemed more interested in what would happen after she was gone than in helping her while she was still here.Kitchen & Dining
She never wrote names.
She didn’t need to.
Linda lowered the letter slowly.
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