“I asked and she shrugged her shoulders as she changed into a gown and climbed up on the table. She was so thin that I could see the outline of her bones. Her skin was nearly translucent, and she could barely keep down anything. Everything seemed to hurt her. She winced when I got her up on the table and I pushed her graying brown hair off her shoulders and wrapped my arms around her. “Just us soda pop girls,” I whispered as I hugged her to me. “I’ll be cherry and you be coke, cause no one need...s a root beer float. As long as I have you and you have me together we will be sweet as iced tea. Sing out loud and give it a whirl, no one can defeat a soda pop girl,” my mom said in a sing-song voice as we finished a creative hand jive and interlocked our pinky fingers as we did when I was little with pigtails. “You okay?” I asked as I turned to open the door and let Henry in. “Kate, I’m sick,” she said out loud and chills covered me. I turned and looked at her with my arms crossed to hide my chest quivering with a need to cry at her words.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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