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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…
Daniel once told me that when he was a child, there were days she ate nothing but dry bread… and still found money to buy him meat and fish.
When Daniel went to college, she still sent him envelopes with 20 or 30 dollars, carefully folded.
She lived with a level of austerity that broke your heart.
The silent illness of old age
In recent years, my mother-in-law began showing signs of memory loss.
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