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She pushed through the doors, and out into the hallway, and Mason did not gloat. He simply set the microphone back in its stand and walked down the steps toward me.
I met him at the edge of the stage with tears running down my face.
“Mason. My God, Mason.”
He hugged me tightly, the way he used to when he was little and the world was smaller.
I met him at the edge of the stage.
“I told you I’d handle it, Mom.”
I held him and finally understood what he had been trying to teach me for months.
My son had never been weak.
Instead, he had been patient.
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