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What Does "Mom" Mean?
July 31, 2014
As a child, I sat besides my dad in his bedroom and looked across at a mirror. Ugly, I thought. Dad laughed.
“You’re insulting Jahna, you know. You’re her spitting image.”
“Who’s that?”
His eyes softened.
“Mom.”
Years later, I stood in front of the same mirror, holding her photo up to my face.
Was I really the spitting image of this woman?
Were my curls hers?
Were the dark brown eyes that I took pride in hers?
Could my big nose possibly have been hers, too?
I was undoubtedly hers.
But she was never mine.
© Heather W., No., Brunswick, NJ
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