The Motherless Daughter
By Michaelle Madrid "When a mother dies, a daughter's mourning never completely ends. Motherless women have always intuitively known this." Hope Edelman "There's a sense we share of being adrift in the world." Irene Rubaum-Keller, Therapist (mother died when she was 7.) Adrift, that is a good way to describe how isolating it is to grow up without my mom. Out all alone, on the ocean, on some makeshift raft. My mom passed right after my fourth birthday. I remember the day my dad told me she was gone. We were in the car and he was upset and crying. I remember we were leaving my paternal grandparents home where we had been staying after having just lived a short stint in east Texas. My mother and father were divorced and he had full custody of me at the time of her passing. Being so young at the time, I was easily distracted from her, her death, and my maternal side of the family. It didn't take long for the sdistractions to fade and memo...