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I was born Naomi Marie Blackwood, became Naomi Canton when I married Nicholas in 1981, and remained that person until three weeks ago, the day after we buried him. I\u2019m 68 years old, with arthritic hands that still remember how to bake the sourdough bread my son Brandon <\/p>\n

used to beg for on Sunday mornings, and the way my daughter Melissa\u2019s hair felt when I braided it before elementary school. I\u2019m telling you this so you understand that before everything collapsed, I was simply a mother who believed she had raised good children.<\/p>\n

Nicholas\u2019s cancer took fourteen months to kill him. Pancreatic\u2014the silent executioner that gives you just enough time to put your affairs in order, but not enough time to actually live with the knowledge. We kept it quiet at first, <\/p>\n

just between us. Our children were busy with their own lives. Brandon with his financial consulting career in Boston that seemed to require him to miss every major holiday. Melissa with her perpetually failing wellness businesses in Denver that somehow always needed \u201cone more\u201d investment from Dad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t need this burden yet,\u201d Nicholas had said, staring at the ceiling of our bedroom, the morphine making his words slur slightly. \u201cLet them live their lives a little longer without this shadow.\u201d I nodded because I loved him. But I knew better. I knew our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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