A Mother's Absence

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Your absence allowed them to steal my innocence, leaving pain where love should have existed.
Your audacity to question why I have a hardened heart when you returned cut me deeply, for I never asked to hold these horror stories in my heart.
I hope the guilt settles like dust through your old age, a testament to promises broken to a daughter by a broken mother.

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