LaKeshia’s Reviews > To Drink Coffee with a Ghost > Status Update

He gives me the space and understands. Thank you for that.

It took my quiet. It broke who I was and now this is where we are.

The dust growing on piles of books… grief

The one thing above all that kills me everyday, every moment I think of you… I want to remember the good but it’s so clouded by the pain and anger…

I lived in books because you made life unbearable and I could escape… I read 100s to thousands before I was even in high school..

How accurate already everything said. Down to the smoking while pregnant, the strange man she invited in who punched holes in the wall… it’s just a book of parallels for all the things left unsaid..

I am unsure how this will go, but as someone whose mother died before apologizing, before correcting behavior, before becoming the mother to me I so desperately craved, I feel it will resonate. Maybe it might provide some closure. It was a struggle to grieve a mother and the idea she could have changed and been the mom I needed.