"She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom."

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

— Anne Lamott