lifeisgood

My mother spent my entire adolescence living for this day…yearning for it with every bone in her body. As it approached, she could be seen rubbing her hands together and grinning in gleeful anticipation. What moment is that, you may ask? No, not the moment she became a grandmother…or the moment her children graduated college…nothing as qualified for a tearjerker Hallmark commercial…no, the moment of which I speak is that oh-so-vindicating moment when I became the mother of a teenager.

You see, teenagers have a way of inspiring hope in parents; hope that one day, those teenagers will get to experience the joys of being on the other side, so to speak. And oh, how I’ve gotten to be on the other side.

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