Don't Call Me Daughter - they're playing our song ....
I've always identified with what I think and imagine are the lyrics of this song. (It's Eddie). The point is, I've never felt like a daughter to my mother. As much as I'm sure she's never felt like my mother. This is not a disparaging or judging thing, it's just a fact of life thing. My mother, who lay in hospital at this moment, a 70+ year smoker, has - as she'll be the first to tell you - "never loved anyone. only plants and animals." And that's okay. There's three of us kids - two brothers, 12 and 8 years older - who've so much more history - loaded and fraught with '60s and '70s parenting myths, truisms and realities. The perfect results of the mother who smoked for 30+ years and the parents who set expectations extremely low for all marriages moving forward - following the example of their own distraught, despondent and dysfunctional parents. That's another few stories for another few books, long after I've outlive...