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Black Bear April Prompt: Liquid Emotion
Do you cry? How do you handle your emotions?
It’s April Fool’s Day and I am a day late on the prompt. My emotions have been all over the place lately and so I was thinking, since April showers bring May flowers, we could turn that into a story of our own.
For April, let’s talk about our raw emotions. What makes you cry? Or, do you hold back tears?
A Black Bear writer this month inspired the prompt, even though he doesn’t know it yet. Thank you, Julio Angel Rivera, for sharing your raw, emotional stories and showing us, especially men, that it is okay to be vulnerable and express your emotions.
I am a crier. It doesn’t take much to get my eyes welled up with tears. A sad little video, a movie, a mention of losing someone, and recently, my youngest daughter heading off to college soon.
While I am so incredibly proud of her and the fact that she got into her “dream school”, it’s the end of the era for me. I feel like my whole identity for so long was being their mother.
