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Harold Bowman | A reader in Salem

Monday, July 29, 2013


I was not yet 5 years old and standing in the kitchen whining for something I wanted but not getting.

Mom was standing at the sink washing dishes.

Finally I had all I could stand and I said, “I hate you.”

I have no idea where I learned that word. Not in my family.

There was dead silence … no retort.

Mom was drying her hands. Now what?

She turned and walked across the kitchen and sat in a chair near me and gently drew me close and in a sweet voice said, “But I love you.”

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