MARY DARCY

Sometimes daughters do things their mothers would rather they didn’t. I can’t imagine my mother would want her daughter—the kid who skipped gym class, kept her nose in a book while everyone else was on the playground, and once nearly knocked herself out with her own knee during aerobics—to run 26.2 miles through the streets of New York City. And she certainly wouldn’t want me to do it in her name. Sorry, Ma. On the last day of summer in her 60th year, Carolyn Ann Alberto Darc

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