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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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whispering: “Grandma’s

hospital, dizziness overwhelmed her–vision blacked out as she collapsed

thud. Geoffrey rushed over and caught

eyes reopened, Maureen was

yesterday she’d been fine, promising to always

stayed close

Seeing Maureen

immediately called out: “Mommy,

stared blankly at the ceiling

Ethan: “You

“Why should I leave?

don’t you

Ethan protested stubbornly.

up, grabbed Ethan from

cause trouble

His voice was ice–cold.

his lips, not daring

closed the door behind him, returned to the

you want. I won’t see it. No

Maureen remained silent.

onto the bed and pulled her into his

Maureen finally spoke: “Geoffrey, Christmas Holidays

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“Zoe’s gone.”

Maureen elenched Geoffrey’s shirt.

kiss to her

tears had run dry, yet she broke down once more, tears rolling down

not for me, she wouldn’t have gone after Noelle, she wouldn’t

you a letter. Deborah delivered it,” Geoffrey

up at

opened the bedside drawer, and handed

it open

few sparse lines greeted

you read this, your mom’s already gone. Don’t grieve–this is

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