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Submitted to Contest #198
She once told me I was going to be the better version of her - right at the end, when I thought the end was just the beginning - but I’ve long since stopped believing it was true. Maybe it could have been, had she been around long enough to tell me what that meant, or how to do it, or what I had ever done to make her believe such a thing. How had I duped her into thinking I could really even function in the world, much less surpass her? My own mother, corporate break-out star, near-gourmet chef, professional hostess, whip-smart and sexy woma...
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