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Taking Time
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Self-Care Isn’t Selfish
By Teresa Hoy
A daughter is a mother’s gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self.
~Victoria Secunda
Mom stood in the small farmhouse kitchen, staring at the clean dust rag in one hand and the can of furniture polish in the other.
I sat at the dining room table folding laundry. I finished a towel and reached into the basket for another, never taking my eyes off her across the open bar that separated the kitchen from the dining room.
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