I Came Home From Teaching All Day to Find a Lock on My Own Pantry

always be there,” he said. “That mothers always forgive.”

And he was not wrong about what he had thought. He was wrong about what that thought had permitted him to do.

“A mother’s love is enormous,” I told him. “But it is not infinite. It has edges. You found them.”

He asked if I would ever forgive him, and I told him honestly that I did not know. That continue reading …