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When I was in high school, I stayed the night with a friend. While I was gone for the night,

my mom made an egg sandwich before bed. While she was standing over the stove, she had a realization

that she was going to die in her sleep that night. She panicked for a few moments, but she regained

her composure, and a strange sense of peace, and contentment came over her. She had let the eggs

burn during those moments of distress, and having lost her

appetite, she scraped them out of the skillet and into the trash. My mother was sentimental. She would

have wandered through the house. I imagine her taking in every memento and artifact from the

life she and my father had built.

She would have stood in my bedroom remembering the defining moments of my then young life.

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