Tuesday, September 4, 2012

"Honey, that COULDN'T have happened!"

That's what my mom said. 

I was five or six.  Something bad had happened to me and I went to her for help and comfort.  And she told me that I was wrong, that it couldn't have happened.  My mom could not handle messy truths any more than she would tolerate a messy house.  Her philosophy was that if you denied it, it went away.

That was the last time I told my mom anything embarrassing/bad because I didn't want her to tell me it wasn't true again.

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