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    “You know,” he continued, less frantic now that his breath had finally settled into something approaching normal, “we weren’t really supposed to celebrate my birthday. It was too risky. But every year, she would ask me to pick a day and on that day, she would take me to an IHOP and we would get waffles with candles on them.”

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Andrew didn’t really think that birthday waffles from IHOP were a replacement for being a good mother, but he kept that opinion to himself.
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    The aftermath of a nightmare, or: Moms are hard and that's okay (kind of)

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