A tale of two mothers

[turtle_realms]

Terry wraps me in a quilt woven from 59 years of well-meaning advice, tough life lessons from experience, tongue-in-cheek criticism... and somewhere in the mix, pride at the person I've become. I don't want her to be a cliche but she is the mother I've always wanted to have. I have this weight-tied-to-my-legs-thrown-into-a-trench feeling that I'd

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[aquietcourage]

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Parents have so much power over our identities and state of being. It just isn't fair. -hugs- I say you're doing a wonderful thing to be so aware of yourself and able to put yourself out there knowing you've a tendency to get hurt.