When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”
“Did donating to me make you forgive her?”
“No.”
“Did it make you love me?”
I smiled.
“Meeting you did that.”
She leaned against me.
Exactly right.
The medical procedure connected our bodies for a moment.
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