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"My younger brother came to town this weekend. By the time he left, we had been ambulanced to Mom&amp;#039;s doctor&amp;#039;s office for rehydration, we had learned that the Hospice option was open and we walked, once again, through that door. Hospice had been to Mom&amp;#039;s house, a change of medication made her stop retching. She began to sleep comfortably; she is tired, but talking, out of pain and satisfied to be running towards home. Oh, and besides that, before I took my brother to the airport, he tied up her magnolia tree which blew over in a storm. My older brother is in town, now. He sits with Mom and entertains her with his singular logic and curious mind. He is a very, very smart man. Mom is smarter than he is. I once wrote an admonishing note to myself in order to spiff up my writing: &amp;quot;Be Smarter! Write Like Mom Talking To Maya Angelou!&amp;quot; I feel a grateful release that the boys are back in town. They&amp;#039;ll come and they&amp;#039;ll go, but they&amp;#039;ll be here when this Designated Daughter runs out of steam.  Which is now.  D.G. Fulford is the author of Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, written with her mother Phyllis Greene. She is also the co-founder of TheRememberingSite.org. You can find her at DGFulford.com.  Photo credit: Marcia Smilack "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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