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To Helen by Bella Han (audio)

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The Importance of Remembering

My parents moved down south three years ago I say. To H. Provence? No, that was way too expensive. They spent a long time searching for a proper elderly city and ended up purchasing a residency in a small elderly town. Sometimes I think it's better for him to forget. What's the point of remembering? He used to hide from his creditors living in a park for six months and looking ten years older when he was finally found. But now as long as he forgets there's a glow on his face as if he's young and happy again. The problem is my mom doesn't want to see me. Every time we meet we talk less and she grows more

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