'As a teen, the last thing I wanted to be was my mother...'
As a teen, the last thing writer Anne T. Donahue wanted to be was like her mother. But as an adult, she's come to appreciate their relationship in a new wayAs a teen, the last thing I wanted to be was my mother. Unlike my friends’ moms, she was soft-spoken, sweet and lacked the edge that made the Cool Adults™ of my childhood seem funny and hip.
That isn’t a particularly controversial revelation, I know. Countless mother-daughter stories stem from the realization that despite our best efforts, we end up evolving into a version of the woman who raised us and adopting the traits we once vowed never to embrace.
Because that’s the thing. To be given enough time to really see and understand and apologize to your mother is rare. Rarer still, being born to a woman who wants to nurture and help you. So what I didn’t understand in my youth was my sheer good fortune—that I got to have a mom whose worst trait was softness; a woman who made me jealous with her capacity for inclusion, and who wasn’t mean for a laugh or punchline.
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