The Stories My Mother Gave Me
Glynnis MacNicol on being single, childless, and suddenly motherless in her 40s
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9 min readJul 11, 2018
For someone who has always been bad at math, I have a weird fixation on numbers.
Take my mother’s death. Officially my mother died on March 20. A Monday. This is the date on her death certificate and the date on her gravestone. This is also what the staff…
