Chapter 147MATTHEWTheo turned from the window and looked at me directly, and I was struck, as I was regularly struck, by how much of Bianca was in his face. It was almost as if Bianca never left."She said that sometimes I would find things that reminded me of Mama very deeply and it was something to not be afraid or sad about. She also told me that it could come in any shape. Like a familiar smell or a color or someone's voice, or someone who looked like her from far away. And she said that it didn't mean I was having a breakdown, and it didn't mean I was confused about what was real. It meant my heart still knew Mama's shape, and when it found something that matched that shape even a little bit, it noticed." He paused. "She said instead of being scared when that happened, I could acknowledge it. I could say, I notice this, and it makes me think of Mama, and that's because I loved her and she loved me." Another pause, as he was playing with his fingers before he added in a much sm
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