Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful but not in a cute festive way. More in a life-threatening way that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother and partly because...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion without being a religious person for about a decade.