PART 3   I stared at the hospital bracelet in the lunchbox until the letters of my own name blurred.

Mrs. Alvarez about donated vegetables.

No preaching before feeding people. Let people eat first.

I smiled through tears.

That was my mother in one sentence.

Let people eat first.

Walter saw the notebook and looked away.

“She wanted to start a kitchen,” he said.

“I know.”

“She talked about it for years.”

“Why didn’t she?”

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