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My mother never wore an apron. Thinking back on all of those apple-pie moments most people have seen in movies or on Christmas commercials, I realize that my life has be irrevocably different. And then I realize I'm glad for this.
He held her close to his heart (the cat that is, not the woman) because she was the one who saved him from himself. The woman mistook his affections for her cat as affections for her and clung to his leg like a porn star. The man tried to shake her off gently, but then realized that the only way he could keep the cat in his life was to keep this appalling woman, so he proposed.
My grandmother's funeral was the first open casket funeral I had ever been to. I refused to look at her dead body up close; I only chanced glances from across the room. I think my father was offended I didn't say my final "Goodbyes." He didn't know that I had said them long ago while her spirit was still there.