the Mom
This is one of my most favorite pictures. You can't see her eyes in this picture as well as you can if you are holding the photo in your hands, but they're the important part. The first time I really looked at this picture, it made me cry. I'd had it on my dresser for more than 16 years, and I looked at it all the time, but I didn't really see it. Until my world was falling apart, then I suddenly saw the love in those eyes. She's been a dear friend and mentor for nearly 30 years, but two major events happened before that day in 2015, that mixed with the events of 2015, and lead me to see how much she loved me in 1999... In 2005, my grandmother and I ended up at her house. This friend who had given me her house key 5 years before and never asked for it back welcomed us at a moments notice, for a week! I got to the house and started to relax. The problem with that was at that time I was prone to migraine headaches, one of my biggest triggers was str