An eight-year-old girl sleeps alone, but every morning she complains that her bed feels “too small.” When her mother checks the security camera at 2 a.m., she breaks down in silent tears….

For more than forty years, she never remarried.

She worked every job imaginable:
– Cleaning
– Laundry work
– Selling breakfast food

All to raise her son and send him to medical school.

Daniel once told me that when he was young, there were days she ate nothing but dry bread, yet still found money to buy meat and fish for him.

When Daniel left home for college, she would still mail him envelopes with $20 or $30, carefully folded.

As for herself…
She lived in heartbreaking frugality.

The Silent Illness of Old Age

In recent years, my mother-in-law had begun showing signs of memory loss.

– Once, she got lost and sat crying in a park until midnight.
– Once, while eating, she suddenly looked up and asked:

“Who are you?”

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