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Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.