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Good Mommy coaches her children to use magic words. Bad Mommy trains her children to be mindless, insincere automatons 

I raised you — and now you decide there are things more important than family

“If he gets through today okay, he could be home in a day or two”

“Choose one,” I hear myself say. I suck in my breath because I hadn’t known I was going to say it until after I did

“Now you look shtotty. Now you can go into the world”

It was an old pain, from a long-ago traumatic event in my childhood that still wreaks havoc in my relationships