make decisions about my future.
None of those accomplishments erased the difficult parts of my story.
But they proved that my life had never been empty.
It had simply been crowded with responsibilities that other people had learned to take for granted.
The Lesson I Learned at Fifty-Five
Today, I am still a mother.
I still love my children. I still cook family meals when I have time. I still worry when one of them doesn’t answer a message and feel relieved when I hear that everyone is doing well.
