Death and Christmas

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Statistics Say They often Travel Together.

I know this for a fact. It turned out Mum’s favorite holiday made the perfect exit ticket. My anti-birthday. How wonderfully some things align.

Christmas Eve, 2013

The phone woke me from a restless sleep. 11:00 P.M. I’d just dropped off. Damn. Mum wasn’t well. She’d had multiple surgeries, multiples…