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she was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.

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Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. 

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She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for it than i did the sun for shining...more