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Sep. 25th, 2005 03:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loracsToday is the 5th anniversary of my mothers' death. Will there ever come a time when I'll not get so incredible weepy and sad on this day? I'll call both my sisters later. It's become a tradition.
My mom said she saw a fortune teller when she was in her 20's. The seerer said she would live until 83 or 84 years old. My mom died 3 weeks before her 83rd birthday. Today it occurred to me my mother might have made this story up. She was 39 when she gave birth to me. This was considered very old back in 1957. I know she worried about dying before I became an adult. She was 11 when her father died but in her 30's when her mother died. Telling me this story all my life might have been her way of trying to quell my childhood fears of losing her.
Or maybe it was true. Guess I'll never know.
My mom said she saw a fortune teller when she was in her 20's. The seerer said she would live until 83 or 84 years old. My mom died 3 weeks before her 83rd birthday. Today it occurred to me my mother might have made this story up. She was 39 when she gave birth to me. This was considered very old back in 1957. I know she worried about dying before I became an adult. She was 11 when her father died but in her 30's when her mother died. Telling me this story all my life might have been her way of trying to quell my childhood fears of losing her.
Or maybe it was true. Guess I'll never know.
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Date: 2005-09-26 08:07 am (UTC)my mom was 39 when she gave birth to me in 1961.