A Mother’s Day Rumination About the Best Gift I Ever Gave My Mother
It made her last years happy and opened my heart. Lessons from a lifetime of attempting to see my mother as a person.
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9 min readMay 5, 2022
In 1993, decades after her death, in one of my “New Family” columns for Child, I wrote with pride about my mother’s relationship with my first born, Jen…