A Backward Glance

S M Chen
5 min readFeb 19, 2021

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

  • Aesop (620–564 BCE), Greek slave and fabulist

I saw my mother again today.

This wouldn’t necessarily be that unusual, except I’ve not seen her since 1979.

She passed that year, a year after my father succumbed to cancer.

It was in a dream.

She did not have the streaks of grey in her hair yet. She was in the prime of life.

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