Gratitude Is a Faraway Land That My Mother Refuses To Visit

I hope I’m never like that

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You never know what you’re going to get when you visit my mother.

Will she be in a good or bad mood?

Will she be hallucinating, or in a dementia fog?

Or maybe, you’ll catch her in a moment of misguided awareness.