and you won’t be a mother anymore, and I’m sorry, but I can’t do anything about it, okay?!”
I regretted it as soon as I said it. “You heard me.”
“What?” “Did you hear me say that to your father?” Her eyes welled up. “Did you?” I nodded.
“Oh, God, Hazel. I’m sorry. I was wrong, sweetie. That wasn’t true. I said that in a desperate moment. It’s not something I believe.”
She sat down, and I sat down with her. I was thinking that I should have just puked up some pasta for her instead of getting pissed off.
“What do you believe, then?” I asked. “As long as either of us is alive, I will be your mother,” she said.
“Even if you die, I—” “When,” I said. She nodded.
“Even when you die, I will still be your mom, Hazel. I won’t stop being your mom. Have you stopped loving Gus?”
I shook my head. “Well, then how could I stop loving you?”
“Okay,” I said. My dad was crying now. “I want you guys to have a life,” I said.
“I worry that you won’t have a life, that you’ll sit around here all day with no me to look after and stare at the walls and want to off yourselves.”
After a minute, Mom said, “I’m taking some classes. Online, through IU. To get my master’s in social work.
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