Saying Goodbye
Maternal Sacrifice
I wrote this three months before my mom died
4 min readSep 3, 2020
We weren’t exactly estranged, but our relationship was strained almost always, and it became even worse after my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. In the year and a half that followed, I made every attempt to show her love, apologize for things I’d handled badly, get closer to her, and talk with her…