“I want doesn’t get.” The purse-lipped voice of her mother, remembered. Ritalin pills fall like Smarties onto snow white ice-cream and she wishes her mum was still alive.
Her mother died of natural causes. The ritalin is for the crying son who wantswantswants - her telling him 'I want doesn't get' has brought her mother, who used to say the same to her, to mind.
“I want doesn’t get.”
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This!! This says so much in so few lines!
Did she kill her mother? Or is her mother just dead from natural causes?
Does she need the ritalin - and for what?
And how I wish my Mum was still alive. Every day I wish that!
Her mother died of natural causes. The ritalin is for the crying son who wantswantswants - her telling him 'I want doesn't get' has brought her mother, who used to say the same to her, to mind.
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