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Mommie fearest
I'm due in four weeks and if the predictions of my mother friends are accurate, I should feel like a total impostor, a crappy mom, a complete failure.
By Heather Havrilesky [2006-10-02]

  • Sounds about right

    My lamprey is almost 13, so up until the surly teenager stuff, I can attest that Mommie Fearest has got it, amazingly, right.

    what is missing is the x-factor: the lamprey him/herself, and that Mommie F. will fall in love with the lamprey. It will be HER little lamprey. Which is why it will suck when the lamprey hangs up. But it is also a rite of passage to be on the other end of the phone - one must be able to tolerate being hated by one's offspring. Our job is to raise them to leave us. Their job is to grow up. It's a pay-it-forward kind of thing.

    Hopefully MF will live to see the lamprey's lampreys. There's the love with none of the responsibility or guilt. You can spoil 'em rotten and it's not your problem.

    Just ask my mother.

    --No Name Given
    Sunday, October 1, 2006 07:28 PM
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