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Cindy's mother died when she was ten years old and she would never forget the way her body froze when her father, Chuck told her the news and how the shock and numbness of it burned away at her skin. That night she couldn't sleep so she curled up in a ball on her bed and held her teddy bear close and softly sang it to sleep so at least one of them could get some rest. "Don't worry Teddy", she said." It's all just a dream. Tomorrow when I wake up it will be like she was never sick or gone. She will have long flowing brown hair instead of a shiny bald head and she will sing to us and make Mickey Mouse Pancakes!" She curled up into a ball on her bed and held her pillow almost to keep from falling. She watched how the shadows on her walls changed as light from passing cars on the city streets danced through her window. Maybe it was the sleep deprivation, but at one point it seemed as if those shadows became people: her mother and father smiling at her and inviting her with outstretched......

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