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She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

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Kristin Hannah
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 25
Novelist
Writer
Garden Grove
California
Waited
Thousand
Ways
Different
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That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.
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No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.
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A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.
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Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts things she could have said.
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