And now she's gone. She has been, for years now, but there's a part of her that things with a place like this ship, maybe, just maybe. It's something she shouldn't tempt herself with, the idea that her mother might have walked through the door and gotten stuck here all those years ago, and one day she might find her as she rounds the corner of the main deck or opens the wrong room.
The way she misses her mother is like the way she misses Laura. It sits like a weight in her chest, a kind of anchor that's far too heavy for her to be able to bear. She wants to let go of it, to give it away, but in some ways that means letting go of them and she isn't sure she's ready to do that yet.
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And now she's gone. She has been, for years now, but there's a part of her that things with a place like this ship, maybe, just maybe. It's something she shouldn't tempt herself with, the idea that her mother might have walked through the door and gotten stuck here all those years ago, and one day she might find her as she rounds the corner of the main deck or opens the wrong room.
The way she misses her mother is like the way she misses Laura. It sits like a weight in her chest, a kind of anchor that's far too heavy for her to be able to bear. She wants to let go of it, to give it away, but in some ways that means letting go of them and she isn't sure she's ready to do that yet.
"But she's been gone for a while."