- LILY -For the first time in over twenty years, I'm having breakfast with my mom.It's still so weird - seeing her here, sitting across from me at the table, eating cereal and toast like this is completely normal. It's not normal at all.But I guess, if I'm being completely honest, there's a part of me that finds it all frighteningly familiar. I thought I'd buried most of my memories of my mom, but they've all come rushing back, one after the other, and some are so vivid it's almost as if no time has passed at all. It might have been yesterday, the pictures are so clear - I see her making breakfast for me and my dad with her curlers still in her hair, her floral pajamas covered by a polka-dotted bathrobe I got her as a Christmas present. She somehow always managed to burn the eggs, but she made up for it by making little sandwiches out of the toast.I study her across the table, and my chest tightens when I realize she still eats her toast in the exact same way - she's just layer
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