He started riffing: “I’m going to start a greeting card business for people like me. I’m going to make a line of cards for people with dysfunctional mothers. How about this? ‘Thanks Mom for never knowing what grade I was in’; or ‘Thanks Mom for all the memories of you walking away whenever I was hurting’; or ‘Thanks Mom for teaching me how to only notice what was wrong me’; or ‘Thanks Mom for teaching me how to frown at myself in self-disgust.’”