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December 19, 2010

Dear Charlie,

My mom is really starting to get on my nerves. I know that sounds horrible, but it's true. Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not just some spoiled brat pouting because her mom took her cell phone away or something. It's just that this past year my mom has been acting very… weird. It's like she's another person.

In my mom's defense her mom- my grandmother- died last year. Actually she died on the same day as Michael Jackson. Thursday, June 25th, 2009. You probably don't believe me, but it's true.

So ever since her mom died, understandably, she has been grieving. She was really sad for a while, but then she seemed to get happier. And she did get happier. Incredibly happier. I'm talking grinning clown happy.

It's kind of creepy to tell you the truth. You see my mom accepted Jesus Christ into her heart. Now we were already Christians. But now my mom is like supper Christian. She is always going to church meetings and baking cakes for fundraisers. And she made a lot of new friends with the ladies at church. This is all good. I'm not saying it's not. My mom needs more friends because, like me, she is not the most social. And unlike me she doesn't go to school where I have no choice but to socialize. She has work but she's a home health nurse. The people she sees on a daily basis at work are all old people. There's nothing wrong with old people of course, but my mom needs friends closer to her own age.

Am I starting to sound like the parental figure here? That's probably because I'm starting to feel like one with the way my mom talks to me nowadays. Even though she has friends now she has started to open up to me. She often tells me things like how she's scared the devil is trying to get her because she is close to God now. Last month the faucet on the kitchen sink broke and she told me she thought it was the devil that had caused it. That he was trying to get her to lose faith by throwing problems at her.

It was just a broken faucet! I don't want to hear about her religious nightmares. I'm the daughter she shouldn't be telling me things like this. She should save it for her church buddies. Or maybe go to a psychiatrist. She talks to as if I'm her best friend. And it makes me uncomfortable. I never really liked to tell my mom about my problems and I still don't. So why should she feel she can tell me hers? And she's always asking me to pray for her. Yester day she sent me a text to pray for her terrible headache to go away! And I was thinking shouldn't you pray to God about more important things than headaches?

And she's so cheerful all the time! Making stupid jokes and giggling like a little girl. It really creeps me out. And she is always playing the guilt card. Whenever I don't want to go to a church meeting with her she says that I should support her. She says that she always supported me when I needed it. And I'm like you're the mom you're supposed to support me!

I always end up feeling guilty when I don't give in. And when I do I feel resentful. Writing this letter is making me feel horrible, but I really need to vent. I don't feel I have any friend that I'm close enough to that I can talk about this with. The only other person I've mentioned it to is my brother. He feels the same way I do.

Thanks for listening

Love always,

Elizabeth