Momma and the Meaning of Life

mortality

• I understand about death—more than you. And I understand about being alone—more than you.

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• They felt they had much to teach, and that their death sentences had given them a moral authority they had never before possessed.

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• I felt for a brief moment at one with them, bonded together in illusion, all of us glowing at the image of the ship nearing the shores of a new life.

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intimacy

• Every time I ask her about our therapy relationship, she gives me that wary look as though I'm coming on to her. Am I?

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• Here, in this office, I'm more interested in a deeper meeting with you: with your essence, with your—I know it sounds corny—but with your soul.

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work-as-meaning

• Perhaps just the common decency of a brief condolence. Or even an expression of gratitude for my willingness to see her despite my grief.

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