AdvertisementMy mom had me nine months after my grandmother died — I was a sorrow baby.
Now I'm in my 40s and losing my mom to dementia and I get why she had me.
My mother's own mother had died nine months earlier and, in an attempt to feel something other than her intense grief, my mother accidentally got pregnant with me.
Now I'm the same age my mother was when she had me and while my mom is still alive, we are losing her to dementia.
AdvertisementThe idea of a "sorrow baby" is starting to make a lot of sense, in some iteration anyway; a puppy, a screenplay, a thousand homemade cakes, whatever.
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