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[feotakahari]

My mother raised my cousin C for several years. The way my mother told it, my aunt was unable to take care of C during that time. The way my aunt told it, my wicked mother took C, and it took years to get her back. C very much wanted to believe that her birth mother didn't abandon her, so she took my aunt's story to heart, and she was never close to my mother in her adulthood.

My mother just got the call that C is dead. I have never heard such sounds of anguish out of a human mouth before. I sat beside her until she told me to go to my room, and one of the few things she said was that parents aren't supposed to outlive their children.

I never would have imagined that after all this time, my mother still thought of C as her child.