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A Sometimes Never Mother By Tara Wray more about this author email this story print this story She is on a payphone at a personal essays grocery store and it sounds like she is one million miles away. 704-335-1031 But she is much closer than that, really, much closer than that. Almost too close. Moving personal essays up the coast she’s been through some forested places, over some mountainous states, she is getting nearer and personal essays for a minute I consider leaving, or better yet, moving. I eye a dormant suitcase. It opens its huge sleepy mouth and begs I throw cottons and polyesters inside. Don’t bother to wash them it says, I will hold them tight for you and dirt matters not to me. She is my mother. If you can believe such a thing. That I have a mother. Who uses payphones outside a grocery store in a funny state called Virginia.
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