The Day My Mother Thought She Had Been Shot
Her face contorted in agony, and I knew her distress was real
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6 min readMar 24, 2024
My mother didn’t like being left alone.
This was one problem I never anticipated, because she lived by herself for more than two decades. She was an independent woman who drove a car until she was 99, so the last thing I expected was that she would freak out when…