My mom and my daughter

What I Learned About Being A Parent When my Mother Died

jesscio
4 min readApr 27, 2019

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I had no idea how hard it was going to be to lose my mom. Why does no one really ever tell you how intense the loss is?

I guess it’s because it is difficult to put it into words, like when you’re pregnant with your first child and everyone says it’s going to change your life and you say, “yeah, I’m ready,” only you can’t be. You can’t know how once the baby is born it…

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