HeyJaredWhat Up, Mom?
Hard-earned insight into trauma healing and life through an unlikely relationship
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My Name is Karen (opens the original)
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At 32, I was broken enough to be teachable as the writer Anne Lamott describes “But when you’re desperate, you become teachable, and you become receptive.”<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="137" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!o8JJ
Split Screen (opens the original)
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I was caught off guard by the stares and whispered conversations that Omair and I attracted when I first started taking him places in 1987. We were an unusual looking pair, to be sure - a tall, black kid with a big afro and a smaller, white woman with a mountain of blond hair. I remember feeling a mixture of discomfort and defiance at the hostile stares – at least that’s how I interpreted them – that we got from other patrons when we walked down the main aisle of Buddy’s Pizza together. I stared
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