Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine May - Mother's Day Issue | Page 5

“Told me what?” I replied.
“You were never supposed to know.”
That’s when I found out that what I had written as
fiction was actually truth. It was then, that I started on
the path of forgiving my mother because I realized that
she had done the best she could with the circumstances
that had been presented to her. Did it erase all of the
years of what she had done? No, nothing could do that-
-the pain of it, the unreasonable reasons for it and the
residual effects of worthlessness and being unlovable
were firmly implanted in my soul. But what it did was
provide a framework of understanding why when so
many children don’t have the privilege.
When my nephew posted on my FB page about
her passing thirteen years ago; to be honest, I had not
remembered until he did. I remember her birthday.
I remember her life and the people who adored the
church-going, hymn-singing, pie-baking woman.
What’s more is that I imagine her pain of having a
reminder every day of something that she so wanted
to forget. I remember that despite the physical and
emotional abuse, that after writing She Touched My
Soul, I had found a way to love and forgive her.
Writing has given me more than just a platform to
tell a story to entertain … it has given me a method to
heal. And that healing is priceless.
This issue of Naleighna Kai’s Literary Cafe Magazine
is all about the love the authors, editors, contributors,
have for their mothers and/or about the joys of being a
mother. We wanted the magazine to be something that
readers could connect with authors on a more personal
level.
Motherhood can be a challenging and rewarding
experience and this issue was designed to show exactly
how much.
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