Some bikers were painting my mother’s house pink after she died at 4 a.m., and I didn’t know any of them.Some bikers were painting my mother’s house pink after she died at 4 a.m., and I didn’t know any of them.

in each other a way to cope.

My mother, apparently, had become part of that world.

She listened to them. Talked to them. Helped them navigate things they didn’t always have words for. She didn’t judge. She didn’t try to fix everything. She just showed up.

And that, I was beginning to understand, meant more than I had ever realized.

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### The Pink House

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