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Letters from My Mother
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ISBN13: 9798396393516
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2023
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2023
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is a collection of letters from my mother Julie Tilly Davidson covering the years from 1971 to 1998. Julie was born in 1918 in Canada and died in 1999. She led a quiet life as a housewife of an English tradesman and a mother of two boys. The letters explore her relationship with me, her older son, and her life in Toronto.
I always knew that my mother was situated somewhere on the neurodivergent spectrum and had passed it on to me. This made us both happy, and definitely gave us a different world view. Perhaps that is why we understood each other so clearly. And possibly because of this, whenever I travelled far from home, my mother would write me to keep in touch. The contents of the letters include descriptions of her day-to-day activities and questions about my daily life. They are not challenging or complex, but are filled with the love of a mother for her son.
You never really know how much someone loves you. But when you find evidence of that love, even after many years, it is a sweet and wonderful thing. As the years passed, I did not realize how precious these letters would be to me. Two decades after my mother passed away, I began writing my memoirs. From her letters, I could add small details to the story, but the real value of the letters came when I assembled them all together. Rereading the letters, put my mother back at the family kitchen table again, sitting across from me. I could hear her and see her once again. One could ask for nothing more from those who have passed on, than to have an opportunity like that again.
You never really know how much someone loves you. But when you find evidence of that love, even after many years, it is a sweet and wonderful thing. As the years passed, I did not realize how precious these letters would be to me. Two decades after my mother passed away, I began writing my memoirs. From her letters, I could add small details to the story, but the real value of the letters came when I assembled them all together. Rereading the letters, put my mother back at the family kitchen table again, sitting across from me. I could hear her and see her once again. One could ask for nothing more from those who have passed on, than to have an opportunity like that again.
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