Omg.. why would you bring that up?

…ited her in 2009. She was in her late 80s then and still remembered the day I set her budgie loose. Her face took on the same expression of displeasure when I brought it up as fodder for conversation. Nothing had changed inside her.
I Broke Grandma’s Heart When I Set Her Budgie Free
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Judy Walker
Arpad Nagy
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Aug 16, 2022
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Omg.. why would you bring that up? My Hungarian mother is the expert at brutal guilt from things I’ve done. I bring up nothing!
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Written by Arpad Nagy3.5K Followers
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Shortlisted for 2024 Northwind Writing Award in NF/Fiction. New owner of First Line Fiction. Editor @ The Memoirist, AoE, Book Cafe, Short Place, Kitchen Tales.
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