If i could write a letter to my mother..
I would apologize for stretching her woman parts to be the size of a watermelon. It sounds like pretty painful process, one that i hope someday i will have the immense...pleasure - of enduring.
I would also like to say i'm sorry for every time i slammed my door, or stomped up the stairs or hung up without saying "goodbye" or "i love you".
I would tell her that I didnt mean to be so hateful at 15, when she wouldnt let me stay out past ten o'clock. Or that when she and my father divorced i'm sorry for all those times i didnt stay with her.
Next i would tell her whats changed since she moved away. Day to day when we speak nothing feels different, but when you look back everything has changed. I would want to explain why i drive the long way home from work or Where the scar on left thumb came from. I would want her to see that i still sleep with the blanket she made me when i was 9, and that when its cold i sleep in her big old sweater.
Last, i would thank her. First for giving me her eyes... and sarcastically for her pin straight hair. For teaching me to ride my bicycle when i was 5. For laughing with me when no else thinks i'm funny. And finally for reminding me that every one is beautiful and every dream is achievable...
I miss my mommy today.