Mom Called Me Damaged at My Sister’s Baby Shower

My face. She inspected me as if she expected damage to show on the surface.

“I’m surprised you came,” she said. “I told your father this might be too painful for you.”

“Why would it be painful?”

Her smile sharpened.

“All this motherhood. All this new life.” She glanced toward Chloe’s belly, then back at me. “Some wounds never really close, do they?”

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