“Ma, I’m sorry I was such an asshole sometimes when I was a kid.” She shook her head and smiled at me. “All kids are assholes at some point. It’s part of what you’re supposed to be. You have to get to know what’s going to work out for you and what isn’t.” “Okay,” I said. “But was it really, really hard to get through?” “No,” she told me, “because I knew what was coming. When you have children, then you have to expect that they’re going to be different from you. But the differences aren’t in every way.” She waited for a minute and then said, “I looked in the mirror one day, and I saw my mother
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