These two pictures are probably the only ones I’ll ever post that I didn’t take myself. Above: a picture of Mom and me at my wedding in 1982. Below: a picture taken not quite four weeks ago as I sat by Mom’s hospital bed, holding her hand. The bracelet she’s wearing in the wedding picture is the one on my wrist below (it had been her mother’s).

Not ready or able to write about all of this, but am infinitely grateful that I have the pictures.

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