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My mom was inside the house.
Her leg was wrapped in a cast. I watched as she scrubbed floors and carried laundry, all while moving from room to room in a two-story house, leaning on furniture to stay upright!
There was my mom — sweating, pale, leaning hard on the kitchen doorframe.
“Mom?!
What happened?!” I shouted as I stepped inside.
She tried to smile, but it barely formed. “Oh… honey. I slipped a few days ago.
I broke my leg.”
She looked away. “I didn’t want to worry you.”
“Mom, you’re hobbling around on a broken leg. That’s not something you keep to yourself.”
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