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“Let’s go home. I don’t want to stay… here.”

“Okay, okay, going home.”

Maureen reached out and picked her up.

Zoe was so thin, almost nothing but bones. Maureen didn’t have much strength, but could easily lift her.

She carried Zoe, walking along the long corridor, talking as she went, afraid Zoe might suddenly leave.

“We’re going home now, for Christmas Holidays. We’ll bake Christmas cookies together, and change into new clothes. Ethan and Jacob will give you kneel–and–beg.”

Zoe listened as Maureen’s voice grew softer, and her vision grew blurrier.

Maureen felt her breathing was extremely weak and couldn’t help calling out: “Mom.

Mom, you mustn’t leave, please? I’m begging you. You promised to always stay with me.”

In her heart, she’d long regarded Zoe as her biological mother, even closer than her biological mother.

Hearing herself called “Mom,” Zoe mustered her last strength to answer: “Okay.”

As the word faded, the hand resting on her chest dropped limply.

Maureen realized for the first time how endlessly long hospital corridors were. Standing midway, staring at the distant light, her throat burned raw.

“Mom, mom…”

But the woman in her arms could no longer hear these pleas.

When Geoffrey’s group arrived, Justin saw Maureen alone, cradling Zoe’s lifeless body.

“Mommy.”

Seeing this, Ethan understood what happened, his eyes reddening instantly.

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“Grandma’s asleep. Let’s take

After exiting the hospital, dizziness overwhelmed her–vision blacked out as she collapsed with

thud. Geoffrey rushed over

her eyes reopened, Maureen

believe Zoe was gone. Just yesterday she’d been

stayed close to

Seeing Maureen

eyes, Ethan immediately called out: “Mommy, how are

at

Ethan: “You

“Why should I leave?

you

Ethan protested stubbornly.

another word, Geoffrey stood up, grabbed Ethan from

trouble right

His voice was ice–cold.

pursed his lips, not daring to

behind him, returned to the room, and

want. I won’t see

Maureen remained silent.

and pulled her into

passed, Maureen finally

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“Yeah.”

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“Zoe’s gone.”

Maureen elenched Geoffrey’s shirt.

kiss to

dry, yet she broke down once more, tears rolling

me, she wouldn’t have

you a letter. Deborah delivered it,” Geoffrey

looked up at him.

bedside drawer, and handed

it

a few sparse lines greeted

your mom’s already gone. Don’t grieve–this is how it was meant

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