How to Say Goodbye to Your Mom

My mom had so much practice with goodbyes, I thought she'd have something to tell me about how to do them well. She told me that saying goodbye always hurt, and she never learned how to do it right with Waipu. Decades ago, when my mom and dad were long distance, my mom made a cassette tape of herself singing for my dad, and she made an extra copy forWaipu. When our family was in Taipei visiting, my grandma got out the tape and played it for me. My mom is singing You and Me, a song originally composed around the 13th century in China. As we were sitting there listening to this tape, I