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want that?”
She smiled. “I’ve been taking care of you all for three years already.”
That night, I filled out the emergency contact form.
Relationship: Family.
She laughed. “I’m just your neighbor.”
I shook my head.
“No,” I said. “Family can live next door.”
For years, I believed I was barely enough.
But my mother had known something I hadn’t realized.
She knew continue reading …
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