Embrace: The Night My Mother Died
And my childhood ended
7 min readNov 9, 2020
All of my cousins were over. And late too! Such a rare event for a six year old to still be up after 9pm, no less on a school night. All the adults were off in the front porch as we played the Nintendo on our television. The year was 1990; this edition of the console was our Christmas gift from our Dad and packed a zapper gun that we were furiously using to tackle…