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Her forgetting of me happened just a few months ago, after I had been traveling for more than a month and hadnt been to see her. When I came back, she asked me if I were her niece, l said no, I was her daughter. Does that mean I had you? she asked. 1 said yes. Where was I when l had you? she asked me. I told her she was in a hospital in Far Rockaway. New York. So much has happened to me in my life. she said You cant expect me to remember everything. My mother was once a beautiful woman, but all her teeth are gone now. Toothless. No woman can be considered beautiful. Whenever I visit her in the nursing home, she is sitting at the table in the mon dining room, her head in her hands, rocking. Medication has eased her anxiety,