had never heard, photographs I had never seen, and memories she had kept hidden away.
I learned that she had never stopped loving me.
And she learned that I had never stopped wishing she would come back.
I still wish she hadn’t spent so many years watching me from a distance.
I wish she had been sitting in the front row at my school performances. I wish she had been there when I received my first award, when I struggled with friendships, and when I needed someone to tell me
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