Love, Your Only Mother By David Michael Kaplan

 

      This is a story about a women who is getting a lot of letters from her mother. Her mother left her and her dad when she was 7 years old. This woman talks about how her mother kept on sending her a lot of letters all postmarked from different places. The woman has kept every single letter in hopes that she could track her mother down one day. But this never happens, the mother is never where the letters are postmarked from. The woman just wants to see her mother but she never finds her. She only keeps on receiving the letters from her with the signature of "Love, Your Only Mother." At a point the woman kind of wants to forget about her but she always remembers her from the letters that she keeps on getting. In the end the women says that she even wakes up in the middle of the night terrorized about her mother coming back to her. We can see how bad she wanted to see her Only Mother.

     The topic of this story was about family. In here we can see how this mother left her child and husband. She keeps on sending her letters but she doesn't want to return for a reason. We can kind of say that she wanted her daughter to always remember her. She never signed her letters with her signature. I thought that this story was very weird. I say this because usually a mother would at least show up to visit her daughter every once in a while. They might of had problems with the husband but it was still her daughter!