In the middle of Sonny’s Blues, written by James Baldwin, he wrote a scene of the narrator with his mother. ““I don’t know,” she said “if I’ll ever see you again, after you o off from here. But I hope you’ll remember the things I tried to teach you.”” These two lines left a deep impression on my heart. I felt hollowed out by what the narrator’s mother had said. As my mother gave me only 4 rules to live by: Let him pay, always smile, take only small bites and always have crossed legs. I feel crippled by the incredible love the shows for her children in just the few lines she is present in the story. I grew up in a place where my mom was in a relationship with a politician, there was no room to breath or to feel. At 9, I had learned how to sew