Types of Stories My Mother Tells

Thursday on Oprah they were talking to bereaved parents and they had a mother on whose son swallowed a nail when he was two, but no one saw him do it, and I guess the thing just ripped him up from the inside over the course of a few days, and by the time she realized something was wrong and took him to the hospital it was too late, and he died. It was so sad.

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Did you get enough salad? —Ian Bakke‘s mother —Types of Stories My Mother Tells (The Morning News)

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Dennis G. Jerz