Mothers and Daughters by June Cotner

Author:June Cotner [Cotner, June]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56603-4
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Published: 2001-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

SAYING GOOD-BYE

When your flight was called for boarding yesterday, I was still not ready. We had arrived at the airport with time to spare. We checked in, bought you a donut and juice, and two additional rolls of film. Then we passed through the security area and proceeded to Gate A-2. For the next 45 minutes we sat side by side, each holding our huge emotions tethered to our hearts—yet speaking none of them aloud. It was only later, alone on my drive back home, that I reviewed all the words left unspoken between us. Did you know that this good-bye is but a dress rehearsal? Just before boarding the jet, you pressed your fingers against mine, looked me straight in the eye and said: I’ll be back, Mom. Don’t worry, I’m coming back. Those fingers of yours, still so slender and smooth—mine so stubby and creviced. And suddenly everything was reversed between us, you comforting me as if I were the child and you the adult. Your words, your fingers, your eyes, all poised to protect me—to stave off the hole tearing into my heart—your leaving, now, a few months from now again, a year and a half from now once more—this fierce love of mine for you, my first-born daughter, what will I do with it once you’ve gone?

Stephanie B. Palladino

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