THE NARRATIVE ARC
When My Mother Was Healthy, I Was Worthless To Her
Who’s insignificant now?
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6 min readJan 18, 2024
My mother was not always horrible.
Yes, she was narcissistic, misogynistic, and cold, but she wasn’t always mean.
When I look back on her later years — the ones with dementia and full-blown mental illness, I’ll think of her as…
