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Lorna Luft

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

Death

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Lorna Luft is saying that her mother focused more on getting ready for dying than on the happiness of having a child. This shows her mother believed death was inevitable and accepted it without hope for change.

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