Only a Motherless Daughter Knows
Only a motherless daughter knows the loneliness in a final goodbye and the power behind that last “I love you”. Only a motherless…
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My Relationship With My Mother Left Me Scared of Having a Daughter
For me, this time of year is always bittersweet. Celebrating the birth of my children, the blessings that were and will always be, is all…
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I Was Too Young to Lose My Mom
This week marks 10 years since my Mom passed away. She died after a seven-year battle with breast and ovarian cancer, and died two days before my…
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Dear Mom, I Still Need You
Dear Mom, After we welcomed my first baby—my daughter, your first grandchild—into the world, I was so overwhelmed with sudden and blindly…
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This is Life After the Death of Your Mother
So when the sun rises one morning and it hits you that I am forever gone, I hope the love I had left you with is more than enough to ease your pain.…
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What it’s Like to Love a Motherless Daughter
At first, you’ll get lost in her sad eyes. Eyes that will haunt you in your dreams. You’ll feel the need to save her, to protect her from the…
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The Stranger I Call Mother
When my mother called me last September, I was surprised by how easily I still recognized the sound of her voice. When I was four years old, my…
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To My Daughter When I Fail
Dear Daughter, I always wanted a daughter. After two babies never made it earth-side, I ached and longed and prayed and cried for you. Every dream I…
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When I Look at My Daughter, I Realize—She’s Just Like Me
There it was. Right in that moment that you looked up at me with your big blue eyes, raised your foot and stomped it down, at the same time as the…
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Dear Mom, I’m All Grown Up But I Still Need You
Dear Mom, I get it now. I get why you would hide in your bathroom and beg us to leave you alone. You weren’t being selfish or crabby. You were…
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