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Marrow: The memory in our bones

Marrow: The memory in our bones

remembering our loved ones--known and unknown

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Feb 02, 2023
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baby sleeping wrapped on the back of woman while sitting
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My mother is almost 80 years old.

She still remembers her brothers.

One dear child she held in her arms. She remembered his face. A beautiful child. He died at three weeks, and though she doesn’t remember why, I suspect it may have been the holes in the shack in which they all lived, an unintended invitation to the elemen…

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