My mother and I started texting when she was in her 80s. I'm so glad I have our texts to look back on now that she's gone.

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Mother-daughter relationships can be challenging, and my relationship with my mother was no exception. But one thing my mother and I could always do was talk — whether in person or on the phone — though our chats often ended in some sort of argument. If we could figure out how to have shorter conversations, we would have been just fine.