My mom was gone from our lives for a long time.Just when I thought she would never appear again, I saw her on parent-child day at my kindergarten.She wore plain clothes. The jewelry she used to wear was gone.When she looked at me, her eyes lit up. She hurried over and handed me a small cake.“Jane, nobody came to take you to the parent-child day, right? I came. I made you a mango cake. It’s your favorite, isn’t it?”A chill ran through me.After playing pretend for so long, she had really forgotten the truth.I was allergic to mango.The first time she ever tried to feed me mango, the doctor told her about my allergy.That day, when she saw me covered in hives and learned I was allergic, her eyes became sharp and cold.“How could you be like that woman? She doesn’t eat mango either!”She forced the mango into my mouth. “So, you’re allergic? Eat more, and you won’t be allergic anymore!”I had a high fever that night from eating so much mango.But she did not stop. Every
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