Threshold - IV

It was too much to be offered "anything." My parents would have given their children their last breath, but they would not have said "take anything." "Anything" was not in the language of our family.

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While my mother was in the hospital, the family looking after us took my brother and me to a make-it-yourself ceramics store on the airbase. Getting to make something at an arts-and-crafts store would have been an exceptional treat.

There was an entire wall of ceramic molds to choose from. The mother told us we could pick any on…