I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

I would say if I answered and thought about what it would cost me to say it. Then I answered, because hope is stubborn in a way that has nothing to do with optimism and everything to do with the specific stubbornness of mothers, the particular inability to give up entirely on the people you loved before they knew themselves.

I said nothing. I waited.continue reading …