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My Mother Lived and Died in a Polluted Ecotone

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A Mother and Daughter Are An Edge by Sarah Giragosian




“A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity.”– Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds




When my mother died, I was handed some pamphlets about grief, its permutations and stages. What to expect. What falls within the range of normal, although what I could have used was a field guide. Suddenly everything around me, the animals and plants, people and objects, changed u

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