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Night after night, my mother came to my bed, even long after my childhood years. She would ___1__ down and push my long hair out of the way, and then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember when it first started ___2__me---her hands pushing my hair that way, for they felt work-worn and rough __3___my young skin. Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that any more-your hands are too rough!” she made no ___4__and left quietly.
But never again did my mother do it with that familiar expression of her __5___.
With the passing years, my ___6___ returned to that night time after time. By then I __7___my mother’s hands and her goodnight kiss. Sometimes the incident seemed very ___8__, sometimes far away, but always it was ___9__in the back of my mind.
The years have passed, and I’m not a little girl any more. Mom is in her seventies, and those hands I once ___10__to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family.
Now, Mom no longer has Dad and lives ___11__. One night on Thanksgiving Eve, I found myself __12___to her house to spend the night with her. As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a familiar hand hesitantly ran across my face to __13___the hair from my forehead. Then a __14___, ever so gently , touched my forehead. I burst into tears.
In my memory, thousands of times, I __15___the night my young voice complained. Catching Mom’s hand in hand, I told her how __16___I was for that night. I thought she’d remember __17___I did. But Mom didn’t know what I was talking about. She had already forgotten and ___18__long ago.
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