Ride my mouth and paint me with your load

I said, “I’m not a fan of drugs or doing anything illegal, but that makes sense.”
She said, “No, weed is legal here now.”
I reminded her, “It’s legal when you’re 21.”
She giggled, “Hehehe! Free porn I haven’t even talked to you in over a year!”
My brilliant response was, “Oh.”
She started crying as she said, “I need surgery, expensive medicines, and lots of things. I talked and joked with her for hours while I watched her smoke. “Carrie, please? He really is!”
“But, Mom, he’s SO OLD!”
She was right. I visited her hospital room one afternoon with Carrie. In a town near Yellowstone, we stopped for lunch at a café. A month later it was clear she was getting worse no matter what the doctors tried.