Mom Called Me Damaged at My Sister’s Baby Shower

“That’s stupid.”

“Yes.”

“And mean.”

“Very.”

“But you had us.”

“Yes.”

“What if you didn’t?”

There it was.

The question that mattered most.

I looked at my daughter, this fierce child my mother would have praised for existing while missing the point entirely.

“Then I still would have mattered,” I said.

Maya nodded.

“Good.”

Then she looked at the photograph again.

“I continue reading …