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What it Means to Not Judge

by Amber on January 26, 2012

in Deeper Story

I put my four boys to bed alone while my husband is away, and out of bad habit, I turn on my phone. I lay in bed in the dark, exhausted and a little defeated, and I go to Facebook for somewhere to zone out.

There I see where very dear ones to me have posted an illustration of a girl looking down at her tummy. She’s pregnant and thinking, “My mother’s going to kill me,” and then (somehow) the baby is thinking, too, “My mother is going to kill me.”

but that’s not even the point of my writing here.

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To My Freshman Roommate’s Catholic Mother:

You taught me how to do my cat-eyes back then. The thick liquid liner, black. My eyes, green and sultry. You had to have known how hard we partied, and I knew you prayed for us, however it is you prayed. You were Catholic, did it all funny, unbelievably to me. I wasn’t living right, but I certainly wasn’t Catholic.

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