I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
Rhythm In Life 
I love Emily Dickinson’s thoughts. In fact, I named my eldest after her 🙂 my favorite poem of hers is “because I could not stop for death”.
I do too😁
Odd. She had a mother and lived with her all her life. This gives us insight into the emotional need that wasn’t being met, I suppose.
Absolutely. The older I get, the more I realize that it also takes emotional presence from a parent to be in a child’s life. One can live under the same roof with parents who are completely absent.🌹
Been there, lived through that. Thanks for understanding.
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Emily Dickinson’s life, like that of many Victorian-era women, was a mess of contradictions. She was, among other things, emotionally distant from her mother, in her early adulthood and closer to her when the elder was in need of a caretaker, in her final years.
Even in the present day, I believe having having parents who refuse to be present can painful. Perhaps her mother wasn’t really emotionally present.