My phone lit up before the sun did. One message. Eleven words.
“Mom, we are cancelling. No time for you today.”
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I stared at the screen, not in shock, but with the quiet acceptance of someone who has finally stopped pretending she matters. I am Eveina Hart, seventy-one years old, and that was how my only son chose to begin Christmas morning. No voice call. No pause. No regret.
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