I Just Missed It With My Mother

"i wanted so much to write a book about my mother's aging, because i thought it would help other people to not make the same mistakes that i had made," she says. "I didn't ask her how she felt. Did she want me just to be there and be present with her, instead of cleaning those stupid cupboards?" She writes: 'The most amazing thing happened to me was if i'd go early, like about five in the morning, and be there for a couple of hours' After years of beating herself up over regrets, he goes on vacation where he learns to let them go.

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