04-Jul-2008
Story Timeline: 188 days
This letter has not been edited I cannot criticize her. At the core of all life and blood she is mother to a son. Because the Little Hope that tore through her womb to stand before the world became a monster, it is unfair to judge her to be a monster also. Equally, it is unkind to judge as monstrous the love of this mother for her crooked child. Does she not deserve the human right to grieve her loss and let her own heart bleed until it stops? Why must her tears so soon fall for another’s loss? Must not a woman also suffer, whose body has nurtured and brought forth a child to watch his life and breath be crushed away and his blood be drained by drips and drabs? The mother of the living boy as well as the mother of the dead suffer as mothers. Not even words might rightly convey what each must inwardly understand and feel. Time...
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