A young mother, gone without a trace
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/10/young-mother-gone-without-trace.html
She sees her daughter in pieces, in features dispersed throughout the family members who are still here.
Richard has the tiny mole above the right corner of his mouth. Sometimes Valencia touches it, lightly, the way she used to touch the mole on his mother's face, before she disappeared.
U'Andre' has his mother's wiggling feet, the ones Valencia used to dress up in white leather booties. She still has the booties. They are on her kitchen table in Temple Hills. They are unscuffed. Her daughter never scuffed them because Valencia never put her down, because when her daughter was born, Valencia looked at her and thought: "I can't believe I made this. I made this, this special baby."
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