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Is nobody going to say it? But I’m not brave enough to let the words pounding in my head cross my lips. My mom puffs on her cigarette, oxygen cannulas shoved up her nose, while her brand-new concentrator hums along with the cicadas. A month in the hospital—four long touch and go weeks, one emergency surgery and the words “stage four lung cancer.” Yet, here she sits, as if nothing has changed. Old habits die hard, I guess. Her nightgown hangs loose around her from the weight she lost during her hospital stay. She blames it on the quality of t...
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