Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.
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