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Your Mother

Let me tell you about your mother. For one thing, she is really quite hard to love.

by Alfred Brown IV on April 27, 2005March 17, 2013

Getting Handed a Q-Tip

Near the end of the whole ordeal, when she has become short of breath and the coughing is wet and yellow and particularly productive, my mother sits cross-legged in the crook of our brown couch, a wool blanket wrapped tight around her shoulders, searching madly for her last words.

by Alfred Brown IV on April 27, 2005March 17, 2013


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