A daughter wonders whether her elderly mother’s reluctance to submit to her care might not be turning away from life, but affirming it
My Mother says No on Bloomsday
It is not easy, it is not easy
to wheel an old woman to the shower
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and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
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