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On Saying Goodbye

On Saying Goodbye

Disjointed thoughts on losing a mother

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Max Burns
Jun 24, 2024
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It’s been four weeks since I held my mother’s hand and watched the life leave her face. A day, a month, a lifetime. It all feels the same. She was 66 years old. She’d retired the year before, when illness robbed her of the ability to do the work she loved. She retired with no time to enjoy the life she had been promised. Just in time to die from her sec…

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