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D!ownload book (pdF) As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book (The Sue William

"Description Book:<br><br>Copy link download: https://isbooktoday.com/slide/0820362549<br><br>Writer Pam Houston once summed it up: &#8220Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us.&#8221 As Long as I Know You is a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance.As Long as I Know You narrates Anne-Marie Oomen&#8217s journey to finally knowing her mother as well as the heartbreakin"<br>

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D!ownload book (pdF) As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book (The Sue William

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  1. LINK BOOK IN DESCRIPTION,COPY AND ENJOY TO DOWNLOAD SYNOPSIS Writer Pam Houston once summed it up: &#8220Nie mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that grab us.&#8221As Long as I Know You is a compelling read for any adult grappling with a living elder who might also be a pain in the ass, particularly, any reader who wants a tender take on the lethal combination of dementia and defiance.As Long as I Know You narrates Anne-Marie Oomen&#8217sjourney to finally knowing her mother as well as the heartbreaking loss of her mother&#8217simmense capacities. It explores how humor and compassion grow belatedly between a mother and daughter who don&#8217tmuch like each other. It&#8217sa personal map to find a mother who may have been there all along, then losing her again in the time of Covid. As the millions of women like Oomen&#8217smother reach their elder years and become the &#8220olest of the old,&#8221their millions of daughters (and sometimes sons) must come on board, involved in care they may welcome the way they&#8217dwelcome hitting a pothole the size of a semi. How a family makes decisions about that pothole, how care continues or does not, how possessions are addressed&#8213relly, no one wants the crockpot&#8213an how the relationship shifts and evolves (or not), that story is universal. As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

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