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March 19, 2018 Featured

My mother didn’t want me to lift her off the toilet. She didn’t want me to bath her on the days her home aide didn’t show, and in the journal I inherited after her death she wrote “I just want you to have a normal life”.

Tags Kirsti Whalen, The Wireless, 2015, social issues, health
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