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Two weeks later my mother sent me a message. I had taken the agate charm with me to Denmark.
When I returned, I learned my mother had gone mad. I visited her in the psychiatric hospital.
She had ripped her hair out, wept and smiled incoherently, telling people she had two daughters, then breaking down, insisting she had killed them both.

She tore her hair and beat herself until the nurses sedated her.
I watched a while and left quietly.
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