At forty-five, my mother underwent a transformation that was as baffling as it was beautiful. It wasn’t that she had discovered a fountain of youth or a new cosmetic regimen; it was as if a heavy, invisible shroud had finally been lifted from her shoulders. After twenty years of raising me in the exhausting, monochromatic solitude of single motherhood, she had finally stepped into the light. The source of that light was a man named Aaron. He was twenty-five years old, exactly two decades her junior, and to my cynical eyes, he was a predator in a tailor-made suit. I...
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