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Her ring came to me. She pried it from her finger in the hours before her breath stopped and gave it to my father who put it in my palm as I stood at her graveside. And I wear it now, on my left hand, marrying myself to my lineage, to the memory of her, apple_pie_and_cigarettes, hair in pink curlers, so many things I wish she would tell me, now that I’m old enough to understand.
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