Mother’s Day Ritual

I watch my mother jump to a sneeze and anxiously ask who among the three of us coughed the night before. I watch her wait impatiently for the fourteen-day period to pass after my sisters’ arrival from Mumbai. I watch her face light up at the breakfast table with make-do recipes. I watch her come up with an even lengthier grocery list than the week before. A card and a gift from Hallmark, the town’s go-to gift shop, – that …

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