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never starved for food till I got married. But I was starving in another way. I was starving for love and affection. I didn’t get none of that.
“If you’re a nobody,” she said dryly, “it doesn’t matter what color you are.”
I had reached a point where I was ashamed of her and didn’t want the world to see my white mother.
It was a devastating realization, coming to grips with the fact that all your life you had never really known the person you loved the most.
