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Thank you for sharing the story of your mother. I have an aunt with a similar story, and my fear has always been that everyone would think she was not loved. She is loved. We all tried to help, but now she lives as she does, with few and far in between interventions for medical care, food, etc. She has lived her life within 4 square miles of where she was born. Her story will be told one day. Long from now. You were brave to tell your mother's story, but in doing so you told all of us that she mattered in this world. She birthed all of these children who have gone on to live productive lives. You did the best you could do by her. And she knew that. Her sense of independence and freedom was the most important thing to her and you allowed her to maintain that - her own sense of dignity. My condolences...and my encouragement to write her story even more completely - a book, perhaps. Peace to your family.