For the first time in a long time, seeing my mom was exactly what I had needed. So he called and lied and said I’d had an ovarian cyst rupture and was in a lot of pain. She was at my bedside within two hours with an entire arsenal of herbs, teas, medications, and a big tube of Vitacilina: her go-to cure-all for every physical ailment out there. She stayed with me while Jason went to the office, nursing me back to health with her homemade albóndigas soup and comforting presence. My mom left sometime later that night after Jason came home and I’d finally fallen asleep. She’d called to check on
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