"Seriously mom, you need to go see what's out there. I hate thinking about you being home alone next year when I go to college," Claire sighed, snuggling next to me.
I had to bite my lip to keep the tears at bay.
My baby was leaving the nest.
For seventeen years it had been just the two of us.
A drunken mistake in the back of a piece-of-shit Chevy my junior year of high school, and suddenly instead of parties and football games…
It was diapers and sore, cracked nipples.
But she was the best mistake I ever made.