I Have Been a Mother for Twenty Years — Here’s What Nobody Told Me

I can say now that being a mother has been the best thing I have ever done. But I couldn’t always have said that.

Kathy Parker
ILLUMINATION
Published in
5 min readMay 6, 2022

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Photo by Tamara Bellis on Unsplash

I was twenty-one years-old when my first son entered the world.

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