For years, my mother wore long sleeves even in the middle of summer. One day I finally asked, \u201cDid Dad do something to you?\u201d She went pale, closed the door, and said something that frightened me even more\u2026\ud83d\ude28\ud83d\udc94<\/p>\n
I was twelve years old when I first noticed chafar there was something unusual about my mother.<\/p>\n
Until then, she was simply Mom to me.<\/p>\n
She was the one who drove me to school, baked my birthday cakes, and came into my room at night to make sure I was covered.<\/p>\n
But that summer, something began to bother me.<\/p>\n
It was nearly forty degrees outside.<\/p>\n
I was wearing shorts, my father was in a T-shirt, and my mother was sitting in the backyard in a dark green blouse that covered her 48 arms all the way to her wrists.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom, aren\u2019t you hot?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
She quickly looked at my father.<\/p>\n
I still remember that look.<\/p>\n
My father looked back at her.<\/p>\n
For a few seconds, neither of them spoke.<\/p>\n
Then my mother smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the first time I wondered why she had looked at my father before answering.<\/p>\n
After that, I began noticing more things.<\/p>\n
My mother never went into the swimming pool.<\/p>\n
Whenever we went to the beach, she always wore a lightweight long-sleeved shirt.<\/p>\n
In family photographs, you could almost never see her bare arms.<\/p>\n
If someone accidentally touched her left arm, she would instinctively pull away. And my father\u2026 He acted strangely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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