Another powerful and affecting freewrite! So much feeling, so much authenticity - and even when the narrator wasn't being honest with herself, the raw honesty came through. And that mother! What a great mother! Now I'm really hoping the other freewrite (cancer, presumably dead) was fiction.
Yes, it was a fiction but some part of this writeup happened.
I'm glad the mom with cancer is fiction, and that this is too is mostly fictional, just because I hate to think of anyone suffering. I tell my kids physical pain is easy. I'd rather have dental work without novocaine than hear a child cry.