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You Lose Your Mother to Brass Cancer
On page 79, write, because i am your son, what i know of work, i know equally of loss. Your hands are hideous, and i hate everything that made them that way. I can't help but think of how you were feeling on march sixt when eight people were shot to death at three massage parlors in atlanta. And then your mother, who passed away in 20 19 from cancer, who worked as a manicurist. How did you sit with all that? It felt like so much of your life was colliding at once.
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