Article: Age can't dim the ache of loss of a mother.(Editorial)

My mother's birthday was yesterday. She would have been 76, not old by today's standards. But she died when she was 63, and I lost her many years before. I should be used to not having a mother by now.

But you never get used to it.

Right after the accident, when the smell of her was everywhere, in the kitchen, in her closet, in the car; when the half-full crushed package of her cigarettes (Kents) was still in the top drawer, I kept waiting for her to return. I pictured her walking into the kitchen with groceries or straight from work in heels and a suit. I imagined her pulling into the driveway, the crunch of gravel, the squeak of brakes, the thud of ...

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