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Submitted to Contest #330
Life began suddenly. I was swept from my mother's arms at her death, before I could walk. I spent 178 days with my mother (including the days I was in her womb). I felt the loss of my mother, Frances. My sister mourns her more chaotically, as she lost her at 3. That event was the abrupt start of my timeline, while my sister's loss began just as she became aware of the world.The concept of death was dangerously on the fringes of my sister's infantile understanding. Instead of knowing nothing, she was painfully aware that her mother was gone a...
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