The rain had been falling in lazy sheets over the streets of Brighton Falls, but inside my apartment, the storm felt heavier. I clutched the
Year: 2026
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My mother’s history was a landscape of sacrifice, a life built from the grit of becoming a parent at seventeen and trading her own teenage
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For years, my mother would deliver Christmas dinner to a homeless man at the neighborhood laundromat. She passed away this year due to cancer.
My name is Harold Bennett, and for most of my life I was the kind of man who paid bills early and kept promises. After
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