Sarah's Mother
Raised Sarah mostly on her own.
Sarah's mother raised her mostly on her own. Sarah planned Sunday lunches with her and wrote about her in the journal.
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At Christmas, the winter before Sarah died, her mother held Sarah's face and told her she'd gotten so thin. She was the one who called Tom to tell him Sarah was gone, and she thanked him for being good to her. She wasn't Beth's mother, but she took Beth in anyway, "a school year here and a winter there." When Beth finally calls her at the end of the book, she says Beth never had to ask.
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