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A final, cruel slap in the face for lives turned upside down

When my mother passed away, I was sleeping in the same room. We had taken her home from hospice, and her hospital bed was in the bedroom she had shared with my father for decades.

The night that she died, I was able to sit with her and hold her hand and monitor her breathing, laborious and pained, as she moved from one life to the next. I sang “You are are my sunshine” into her ears, not knowing if…

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