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" To his million-plus followers, Writer and NPR host Scott Simon is laying bare one of life&amp;#039;s unavoidable milestones: his last moments with his dying mother. With a mixture of sadness and wisdom tempered by humor, Simon takes us through humbling, intimate moments.    Mother cries Help Me at 2;30. Been holding her like a baby since. She&amp;#039;s asleep now. All I can do is hold on to her. \u2014 Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 29, 2013       Can&amp;#039;t hold my mother like a baby indefinitely--have to use the bathroom. My wife coming over w/ my mother&amp;#039;s husband. \u2014 Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 29, 2013    He also shares quotes from his mother, who seems to be meeting things with a smile:    Mother: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know why this is going on so long. I&amp;#039;m late for everything I guess.&amp;quot; \u2014 Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 27, 2013       -you med people keep it down?&amp;quot;) Tell my mother I&amp;#039;ll see my wife downstairs, back in 10. Mother says, &amp;quot;Have a quickie!&amp;quot; \u2014 Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 29, 2013    And the two often sing to each other, more so when he is told by nurses that &amp;quot;hearing is the last sense to go&amp;quot;.    When my mother woke briefly I sang her My Best Girl. She replied w/ You Are the Sunshine of My Life. Broadway in the ICU. \u2014 Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 28, 2013    While Simon discovers and shares some things that maybe we shouldn&amp;#039;t forget:    I love holding my mother&amp;#039;s hand. Haven&amp;#039;t held it like this since I was 9. Why did I stop? I thought it unmanly? What crap. \u2014 Scott Simon (@nprscottsimon) July 29, 2013    Simon has been there for days, starting in earnest on the 26th. Through all of this he maintains a discourse with well wishers who comment from all over the world on his Tweets, many sharing their own experiences with losing loved ones. Is this an event that should be shared with the masses? That&amp;#039;s up to Simon -- you, dear reader, can always hit the &amp;quot;unfollow&amp;quot; button. We&amp;#039;re just ecstatic that Twitter, so often just a barrage of marketing, complaints and trash talk, is being used for such a human purpose. It brings a whole new meaning to &amp;quot;social media.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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