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“Is there any truth to the q-tip thing being bad for you or do doctors just not want me to be happy?”
“Why not forgive? In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy, Justin. I don’t know what it was like to be her.
My mom put me through a lot. She hurt me. A lot. But she’s full of more cracks than I can ever comprehend.”
She asked for pictures—” “To show people. Because it doesn’t fit the narrative that she’s a loving and doting mother if she doesn’t even have pictures of you to show people while she’s taking credit for your accomplishments.”
“Wow. We’re checking each other for lice. I guess you could say things are gettin’ pretty serious.”
Something was starting to shift inside of me with Mom. Maybe because I hadn’t spent this much time adjacent to her in almost fifteen years, but I was realizing that even though I loved her, I wasn’t sure I liked her.
