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Weekly Contest #321
My mom died twice when she was giving birth to me. That's never something that you expect your mother to say, especially not something for her to stay so humble about. I feel like if that happened to me, my children would never hear the end of the miracle it was, that me and them were both alive. But she never told me that, not once. Not in the 17 years I’ve been alive. I had a terrible childhood, from my perspective. The feelings associated with memories, no matter how they might have influenced who I am today, never leave. But I can never ...
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