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9 years 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts"> {My mother’s yarzheit(anniversary of her death) is tomorrow, but tradition is to light a memorial candle starting the evening before. The candle will burn for 24 hours to honor the dead. Memory and nostalgia tends to blur our lost loved ones...(1/)
...making them into these flawless beings. I prefer remembering her as she was, temper and all. Because the reason why she was so wonderful was the lack of perfection. She was messy, in every respect. She was always late, her handwriting was barely decipherable...(2/)
...she constantly stained her clothing, when she cooked it was like a delicious storm hit the kitchen, she had a bad temper and when there were arguments, she could SCREAM(my god, could she scream), she always sang the wrong lyrics(loudly), her hair had a mind of its own...(3/)
... she was incredibly stubborn, she never took care of herself the way she took care of others, she was sometimes oddly naive about the world, she was an even easier cry than I am, and her laugh was unrestrained and contagious...(4/)
... Most of all, she loved big, loud, and as messy as possible, without reserve. She hugged you for as long as you needed. She gave wet kisses, smelling of cucumber melon lotion. She could cuddle you right off your twin-sized bed...(5/)
... She mothered anyone that came into her space, at work, at home, at the grocery store. She was a warm burst of life and I was so lucky to have that, we all were. It was not for long enough, but really, it never could be. #Teextraño, mommy. #teamosiemprehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Red heart" aria-label="Emoji: Red heart"> }(6/6)
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