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For a moment I had to look away, toward the window, because the ache in my chest was too sharp, pride and fear and something deeper, something like grief for all the years I had carried this alone.
“Mom,” she said softly.
“Give me a second,” I whispered.
She gave it to me, patient as always. When I finally met her eyes again, those steady grey ones that had been reading me since she was four, I felt exposed and seen.
“It’s good,” she said. Not asking. Just assessing the way she did.
“It’s extraordinary,” I told her, voice rough.
“I wasn’t sure about the third paragraph,” she added.
“The third paragraph is the best one,” I said, meaning it.
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