THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Tonguette) - As My Mother Lay Dying
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Culture As My Mother Lay Dying Watching movies with loved ones can be its own kind of communication. As my mother lay dying in the hospital, her eyes tired and her breathing labored, she told me that she had loved watching movies with my brother and me. She said, in the days before her death from cancer at 79 in September 2023, other things to me, too, but not as many as one might expect. She was the most loving of mothers, but she sometimes struggled to express her feelings plainly. To do so at the 11th hour would not only have represented a reversal of a lifetime of her habits but, for her, a grim confirmation of what we both then…Open