|H E R| Since my mother has been here visiting me, I have begun thinking about how much we have been through together! And why she is both my mother and my bestfriend. Moving to Houston when I was four-years old, we’d moved in and out of homeless shelters until I was 12 yrs old due to shifts in life/circumstances, unemployment, being without a car for two-years, being classified as low-class due to income-ratio & debt, and living life under a single parent household. But, one thing remained true, I always knew mommy was going to come home, I always knew that no matter what, as long as we had each other, I had zero to worry about. She never chose a man over me. She never chose a career over me. She never chose HERSELF over me. She created security, trust, and love for me, that showed me how to live –God’s way. As I look over the lifetime I have spent with this beautiful and immaculate creation of divine artistry, I weep in my seat because what about me, made me so deserving to be granted a mother who has been truly the definition of SELFLESSNESS? Out of all the pain and heartache in this world that normally occurs during childhood, I was shielded from all of that and given stability, security, self-worth, self-esteem, and value, all manifested through my mother. Although we had lights turned off or car issues or money shortages or food stamps or other things, we had each other's’ love and each other to depend on with the center being God and look at us now. Stronger than ever. People literally tell her how great of a job she did with raising me and commend her so much. Everything I am, was learned by watching her and now that I am twenty-five, my sincerest hope and prayer is that I can raise children that think the same thing about me. That thought just causes me so much pause. . . Her: [Doretha A. Duncan; my mother, my sister, my best friend —her life story is to come] (at Monterey, California)
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