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table. “I want to call you Mom too. Is that okay?”

Lucas had already been calling me Mama Cristiana for weeks, with the uncomplicated certainty of a four-year-old who had made a decision and saw no reason to revisit it.

“If that’s what you want,” I said, and my voice did not stay as steady as I intended, “then I would be honored.”

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