Chapter 38

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“Jennifer, eat.” Mom said the same thing as she did every time we sat down by the kitchen table, her holding Beau, and that was the only time she didn’t look like she wanted to crawl up into a small ball of despair and cry, same as me. “I am….” I said it back hollow, taking another bite of the scramble that didn’t taste good anymore; nothing did. “That’s three bites, and I’m counting them; look at you, wasting away again; I don’t want to take you to the hospital like that time before we found out you had this little treasure…” she stopped glaring at me and smiled at Beau, she loved him, she did, and I was happy about that, really. Still, she was also just as overbearing and had me fight her every step just to take care of my own son, just like I knew it would be like the second that I ha

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