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The throughline between my mother and me is more than as parent and child. It is also the ties between how our identities were transformed by being menopausal people.
"How could I become a better smeller?"
The author with her brother, Kevin, and mother, Nancy, in Sandwich, Mass, 1981. (Courtesy) One year, when I was 9 or 10 years old, I convinced my brother to pool our money so we could buy our mother a truly stellar Mother’s Day gift. Our dad took us, as he usually did before Mother’s Day, to a store at our local mall called Cherry, Webb & Touraine, or CWT for short. This was, in our opinion, the fanciest store in our neck of Southern New Hampshire and thus the perfect place to shop for special occasions for my mom. Like the girl on a mission that I was, I led my dad and brother directly t...
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