May 10, 2020
6 min read
My Mother Lived a Life
A Mother’s Day Remembrance
My mother was born in 1918. It was the year the influenza epidemic spread across the world and became a pandemic. By rights, and in a more populous locale, my mother might have sickened and died before she ever had a chance at life. She was a skinny, spindly little thing who always looked undernourished in early pictures.
