“Are there any parenting decisions you aren’t proud of?” I teased. Mum didn’t answer and instead just looked out the window. I felt bad; I’d only asked in jest, and I assumed she’d reply in kind. Sometimes I like to tell her that she used to terrify the life out of me, and she usually responds by telling me that she didn’t like me very much. It’s fun. It’s our love language. But this was not how this interaction was going. “I think the thing I regret most,” she said eventually, “was that I raised you as if you were straight.” I was stunned. I had not been expecting that at all. I was thinking
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