A Phone Call From My Dead Mom

When your mother calls, you answer the phone. That’s how it works. That’s what you should do.

Except we know you don’t always answer, because maybe the relationship with your birth mom is complicated and maybe she did too many drugs, had too many problems.

Maybe her love felt like a heavy weight drowning you in the sea of life. Maybe she wasn’t the life raft you needed her to be while she was alive.

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