Bookmarked.

Thank you. Perhaps I can use your words and ideas to break out of my most destructive relationship of a lifetime……my mother. While it may seem simple to understand someone who has 21 photos surrounding her dresser, all of them of her, sometimes the easiest answers can be the most distant.

Currently it’s very difficult to see my parent’s eventual passing (currently 87 and 90) as anything but a gift (even though currently the only rational result I can see is my own death as well, (and not out of sorrow. That’s how crippled, lost and empty I have become over 61 years of “motherly love”.) Perhaps there is still hope, however small and unlikely at this moment.

Thank you. Though I may lack the linguistic skill to commit your name to memory, I will remember your heart. (And I can look up your name.)