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Drained

Momma said, “You don’t have to look down at your feet. They aren’t going anywhere. They aren’t going to move unless you tell them too.”

I never lost a fight. But that didn't make me strong. That terrified me. Because I never wanted to fight.

And for a while there it seemed like I was a wonder child.

CHAPTER 4 Momma said, "Everybody come in the house!" Remember back when we were all little kids on a Saturday afternoon? It didn’t matter...

The youngest kids always had the warmest baths. And it was always youngest to the oldest. We went in groups of three for the “Little kids

I keep putting off writing this letter to you because it’s not something I want o do. Because it seems so final. Even though, now as I...

I looked into the pot to see what was cooking and all I saw was water... Momma was putting in all sorts of spices... when I asked her about

I miss that you weren’t there for my first day of kindergarten. The first time I scraped my knee. The first time I wore my first party dres

But that very moment when you accept for a certainty that the loss, that it's real and permanent, your life changes. Sometimes it’s subt

There were days when you could hear my momma yelling at the top her voice so that any one of her fourteen children would answer her and do w