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My Mother Locked the Gate on Me

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Bill.

“Write down the seal numbers when she sends them.”

“I don’t have a pen.”

I looked at him.

He patted both pockets, panicked, then grabbed a marker from the OR whiteboard.

Fine.

Good enough.

For the next thirty-six minutes, I became exactly what I had been overseas.

A person with a phone, a bad chair, and no room for feelings.

I called state police dispatch.continue reading …

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