Melomiri

My Mother's Secret Life Exposed

Language: en

My mother, Joanne, was dying. Stage four lung cancer. Because she couldn’t bear the thought of leaving my father and me behind to navigate a world without her, she decided to take us with her. She slipped crushed Ambien into our Sunday roast, sealed the windows of our suburban home, and turned on the gas. But when my eyes opened, I wasn’t in the afterlife. I was eighteen again, back in the year I was supposed to leave for college. There was just one catch: Joanne and I had swapped souls. “It doesn’t matter,” Joanne whispered, her voice trembling with a mix of terror and relief as she…

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