Eunice

Letting Go of Your Mother

Photo by Raychel Sanner on Unsplash

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“How are you?” I asked.

“Oh, fine, fine,” she said. Then: “Old. Old and brittle. Too old,” grimacing.

Though a screen cannot compare to personal contact, I could tell something had changed…