'There are things you don’t know about your grandmother. One day, one day I’ll tell you.' An essay from What My Mother and I Don't Talk About.
Over the years, I ran away again. He was still a drunk, and you still left and went back, left and went back.
When I discovered this, I was angry, of course. I asked her if she was having sex and she vehemently denied it and then continued to defy me. I called to tell you what was happening. And you were as upset about our girl running away as I remember you being whenever my father hit you. Through much of the chaos, you had been particularly quiet and then when word came that she was on the way home, you turned to me and I saw that the expression of your face had changed from worry to alarm.You don’t know what your grandmother did... One day. One day I’ll tell you.were born in 1943, just a few months before your mother turned sixteen. Not too long after you were born, she left for Chicago, escaping the racism and poverty of the South.
When I was in middle school, she supervised a team of custodians in a building that housed the corporate offices of a major financial institution. She gave me a ring that I wear to this day. A ring that she swiped from a safe left open in the office of an investment banker. The first time you shared these stories with me, I was too young to understand. But as I grew older, I saw the truth.you before dawn to travel to her job as a domestic in a home in an affluent suburb. You were expected to get yourself up, dressed, fed, and off to school. Back at home, you finished your homework and started dinner. You were nine years old.The two of you had your battles. Battles that mothers and daughters have. But your mother never knew when to let things go.
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