Worst Mother in the World by Kari Bentley-Quinn
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Mary Female, mid twenties. Bonnie's daughter Newly pregnant. Yeah, I just What am I doing, right? I don't have a job. I don't have a place to live. I don't have a husband or a partner. I might want to go to school. Oh, nothing. It's just like literally every woman has mommy issues. Doesn't seem like revolutionary therapy or whatever I get that I do. I I think, anyway, I mean, no matter how bad things got, it never occurred to me that not talking to my mom was like a choice. But it is. Oh, I know you think I'm unfixable. You've made that very clear. But, you know, I was in the hospital a long time, and that wasn't my diagnosis. Just f y I make yourself love him. Just like be his mom. Believe him. When he tells you stuff, read him stories, bandage his knee. When he falls off his bike, get him ice cream and he gets a good report card. And just, like, try and make a functional human out of all of this. And maybe you won't love him. Maybe you'll be proud. And maybe that will be enough. Since I was a little girl, but I know why did it then have made things more interesting? Life was really boring for a six year old. So why not say, instead of just my boring walk home from school, my bus got into an accident. Why not say my real father was Prince Charles? I never even met my father. But as I got older, I kept doing it for different reasons. Like I said, she was getting a second degree. So she was seeing patients during the day. This was all before she had her own practice and going to school at night, leaving me time to get in all sorts of trouble. I got caught shoplifting. I skipped school. I drank. I lied to my mother constantly, and she was always catching me, so I figured she would figure it out. But she never did. None of it happened in the house. There were motel rooms, the car and