TW: Death, grief, & moving on.
A week ago, cancer finally sent my mother to rest after a long battle. Through lymphoma, remission, and later lung cancer, she held fast for a time, and then she was gone.
How do you summarize a life? By the sum of its parts. Mind if I talk about her a minute?
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