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Not the kind people talk about in big speeches, but the quiet kind. The kind that comes from knowing who will sit beside you when the room grows silent. Who will hold your hand when words run out.
I had already been mostly alone for years.
My children lived nearby. Ten, maybe fifteen minutes away. But visits had become rare long before I got sick. That pattern didn’t start with my diagnosis. It started years earlier, after my husband died.
