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When I asked what she even meant by that, she said that every day since our parents died, she’d had the chance to be a mother to me. She’d had the chance to step up and prove that she could be a mother to someone who needed one. She’d concluded, and the universe had apparently agreed, that she hadn’t done a very good job of it. Therefore, she couldn’t be trusted with a baby of her own.