The Time I Erased My Mother’s Face

Trying to earn her love, looking for our worth

Photo by laura adai on Unsplash

There was no follow-up plan when she left, moving across the states to start her new life. Despite the pain her behaviors caused, my mother’s mental disarray was hard for me to recognize as a young teen. Instead, I focused my energy on surviving being motherless for the onset of my high school years, regardless of the reasons…