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  “I know, Mom.”

  “You do?”

  I smiled. “Yeah, Mom, I do. I’m trying, too. And I wonder if you could do something to help me?”

  “What? I’ll do anything for you.”

  I handed her my journal. “Will you read this?”

  “You want me to read your diary?” She looked confused, but she took it from me.

  “I know it sounds odd. There are a lot of things in there that you should read. You may not like it, but hopefully you will understand me a little better. Maybe you will see why this has all been so hard. For both of us, Mom.”

  When I went to bed, it was two o’clock in the morning. My mom was on her bed reading my journal. As soon as I closed my eyes, I was asleep. For the first time in almost a year, I slept.

  I woke up to sunlight pouring into my room. It was three o’clock in the afternoon. My mom was sitting on the edge of my bed. She was holding my journal in her lap.

  I sat up. “Did you read it?”

  She nodded her head and reached out to me. I went into her arms. We didn’t say anything, because we didn’t need to right then. I knew she got what I wanted her to out of my journal. She understood what it was like for me then. All of my feelings had been poured into that journal. I had held nothing back.

  As for me, I knew my mom really was trying. The old mom would have flown into a rage after reading that journal. Instead, she saw what she needed to see. She knew what she had become. She knew what I had lost.

  I know everything is going to be alright. In time.

  About the Author:

  Nona j. Moss grew up in Cheyenne Wyoming. She has published two books and some poetry. She lives in Saint Joseph, Missouri with the love of her life and best friend, Travis, and her teenage son, Zayne.

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