Sidney Wear | Sidney Wear
Dec.27.2010
In my mother's funeral file was a note that there was a letter for me in her safe deposit box. She said the letter had originally been intended for my stepfather, and after I read it, I could give him a copy.
The note wasn't in the safe deposit box. I speculated that she changed her mind and...
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Dec.26.2010
I knew my mother had a file in her desk labeled "My Funeral," where she had made her choices known. The trick was to find that folder since her desk and her whole house were gone--the latter bashed down, no less--when she sold her Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Usonian home to pay for her...
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Dec.02.2010
I was just finishing my first Santa Monica College English class of the day, and I had ten minutes before the next one started when I received the call. My mother had fallen out of bed that morning and hurt so much, she asked to go to the hospital. She’d been ambulanced off, and my wife, who had...
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May.19.2009
A number of years ago, looking for something in a rarely used cabinet at my mother's house, I came across drawings of a young child, around two years old with short, neatly parted hair. My name showed that I was the subject. I took them to my mother and asked, "Who drew these?"
She said...
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