Very moving article. Makes me appreciate my own, living, mother quite a lot more. I have a friend who lost her mother a few years ago. It's changed her in quit

Very moving article. Makes me appreciate my own, living, mother quite a lot more. I have a friend who lost her mother a few years ago. It's changed her in quite a few ways. I'm not sure if I should sned her this article. She believes in the power of literature just as much as the author, but I don't want to distress her. Finally, I am really not sure what this article is doing on Hacker News.