You’re Making a Spectacle of Yourself!
Mother, please. Go away.
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4 min readAug 4, 2020
As kids, there were few more serious infractions we could commit in our mother’s eyes than that of “making a spectacle” of ourselves. I can practically hear her bark that in a way that ensured that whatever spectacle was being made got cut short.
Those words are ancient, tiny barbed hooks buried deeply in my psyche.
