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, she replied, “I love you. Don’t be silly. You know we never said things like that in my family.”
“Well, I want it to be said in ours. From now on I want to
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our conversations with ‘I love you.’”
In May 2000 my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She was
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to hospital, and I phoned every day to
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her. One evening when I rang, a nurse answered the phone and regretfully informed me that my mother’s condition had rapidly worsened. She wasn’t expected to
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it through the night.
Knowing I couldn’t get a flight in time, I asked the nurse to put the phone next to my mother’s ear so I could talk to her. “She’s
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conscious,” the nurse replied. “It’s unlikely she’ll hear you.” But I didn’t care. I wanted to do it
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.
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she’d placed the phone by my mother’s ear, I started
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and telling Mum over and over again that I loved her. At first, all I could hear was “Hmmmm” — but then, like a miracle, with a deep
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she said, “Love you …… love you, darling.” It was the last thing she said before drifting into
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