"Girls, get in here so I can get my hands on you," she said, summoning my college pals into bed with her. She had managed one of her signature Susan Gormley lines, even with the oxygen tube that never stayed in place across her face."
"We knew Mom was sick, of course. She decided to stop treatment the month before, so we knew what was coming, just as I'd suspected what was coming when I left my job in San Francisco to move home to Ohio that November."
"Although she was proud of my professional success, Mom worried about the stress of my latest tech job. Her immediate acceptance of my suggestion that I take a break from my career to be with her was one of the first indicators of just how sick she was."
"February morning light poured into the room from over the hillside, which was dotted with black cows whose breath made small clouds in the winter air."
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