A young man reflects on a day spent with his estranged mother, in an attempt to understand her enduring trauma and its e | dG1fcU5OTTc0N1gxWDg
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00:00I hadn't seen her for three years the day we went to the beach, her skin smelt like
00:14alcohol but I couldn't bring myself to ask, you look good, come here my beautiful boy,
00:20I was distracted by the name written permanently in ink up her spine, like a black eye that
00:26never healed. She's so happy to see you. Hey, you okay? I'm totally fine, you're fine, you
00:36hear me? You fucking hear me out there? The way these people treat me at the motel, it's
00:40abusive. It's like some freaking nightmare. It's like some freaking nightmare all the
00:46time. No, don't tell me that again. No, I've tried that, I've tried that, I tell you, I've
00:50tried it. How the fuck do you live like this? I'm alive, I'm free.