Michele Martell's mother, Phyllis, was killed in a car accident when she was just 58 years and one month old, two days before Christmas 1997. Michele was 35 at the time with three young kids. This July, Michele turns 58, and has been thinking about what it means to outlive her mother's ultimate age, to move past her in years spent on this Earth. This weekend, she took part in an Instagram live poetry workshop with Canadian poet Rupi Kaur, the author of two bestselling collections of poetry, in which Michele was prompted to consider different body parts while thinking of her mother.
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