The first-person accounts in NPR’s StoryCorps series are often quite moving. In last Friday’s segment, a teenager interviews her lesbian mom, who tells the story of how she came to a understanding with her own mother only shortly before it was too late: “Mothers and Daughters, and a Blessing” (via Billy).
Of course it made me think about my dad and how Thom and I stayed by his hospital bed in the days before his death. Though my dad never addressed Thom’s and my relationship explicitly, I hope it was some comfort to him knowing that I had someone special in my life and that I was happy. It was then that I thought, we really are a family, all of us.
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Hey, thanks for the citation. :} (Can you tell I’m trying to avoid the cliche “shout-out”?) I’m just crawling out into the sunlight after my move and haven’t been here in a while.