Tag: New Faces of 1952

  • You Can’t Chop Your Mother Up In Massachusetts

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    by

    John Poplett
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    It was the fall of 2014. I had returned from a delirious trip to my first writer’s retreat in North Carolina, not knowing that my mother, Carolyn, had dementia. I had clues, two of her siblings had already died from it, but denial being the stock and trade of the human race, I gallantly did…