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Z B's avatar

"I would eventually leave her the way she left her mother. Patterns repeat."

I felt that. And my mom was born in NC, but my family migrated to NYC.

Love your writing, by the way. I didn't do so well upstate, but that's where my mom has called home since 1986. I need to visit often, and I've started doing so after she ended up in the hospital after my aunt passed. Quite a few of her siblings also moved up there, because she was there, she's the oldest, and she's been everyone's sanctuary. That means that THAT place is where I go "home for the holidays", while I'm back here in the city, where I belong, and where we were all raised.

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Aiesha Turman's avatar

Thank you! Isn’t it great to know where you belong and to know where you be and to whom you belong?

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Z B's avatar

Absolutely!

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