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Her death was so freeing to me in so many ways. Not the least of which was Mother's Day: I don't have to go searching through cards that don't suit, steel myself for a call, grit myself while the world waxes poetic about mothers. I didn't love my mother; very sad fact. Few believe me on that score: everyone loves their mom, right? I no longer have to defend myself. I don't talk about her. And given she's no longer in the world, no one else does, either.