The most painful thing about having parents who love you but don’t quite know you is that they will spend the rest of their lives describing a son they invented to people who will never meet the one you actually became.
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The cousin called on a Tuesday. She had been at a dinner party my mother also attended, and she wanted me to know how proud my mother had sounded when my name came up. The phrase she used was “absolutely glowing.” I sat down on the floor of my apartment somewhere around the second sentence and stayed there for a while.
In my mother’s telling, I was a confident young man who had built a successful business through sheer drive, who lived a glamorous life abroad, and who was proba
In my mother’s telling, I was a confident young man who had built a successful business through sheer drive, who lived a glamorous life abroad, and who was proba
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