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My Mom Dies

Submitted by ggevalt on April 6, 2006 - 16:17.

This was written in April 2006, a month after my Mom's death.

By Geoffrey Gevalt
YWP Editor

My Mom has been gone a month now but I still have moments where I forget, when I want to pick up the phone to call her. Tonight it happened while I was washing dishes. I hate washing dishes.

Over the years I have tried to offset that distaste by getting something else done in the process, like phoning my Mom. It was easiest to do when we still had a 1960s-era, rotary wall phone with a long cord that stretched to the sink; the receiver fit nicely between the ear and shoulder.

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