BUTTONS by Dipayan Chatterjee My mother is obsessed with buttons. Wooden buttons. Metal buttons. Plastic buttons. Old buttons. New buttons. Rusted buttons. Broken buttons. Shirt buttons. Pant buttons. Good old fashioned buttons. Since my childhood...everywhere I looked the only thing I could see was buttons. She had more buttons than I had toys. Sometimes she would even make sock puppets for me using buttons as eyes & nose. She hoped it would make me like buttons. But it didn't. I hated all these buttons. But realising how much hard work she put in to raise me as a single parent...I tried to put up with her OCD. But not anymore. I am a grown man now. I have a family to take care of. And especially since she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's...it has become unbearable. It broke my heart to put her into an institute for the elderly...but what other choice did I have? Now that she has settled there and the doctor's confirmed she is slowly recovering...I have decid...
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