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Mom,
I've finally decided that I should tell you something that I should've years ago.
You can't hurt me any more than you already have. I hope you know that. After all the drinking, after all seven of your weddings, after everything you told me would happen and didn't, after everything you did to me, and after everything you never did for me, I'm done. I'm not letting your stupidity affect my life anymore. And I want you to know that I'm doing perfectly fine without you. I'm actually doing a million times better since I left. Since I stopped listening to you. Since I stopped believing that you might turn around and do the rightthing for once.
You taught me that pretending to be something I'm not is better than being myself. You taught me that I had to sleep with countless amounts of men to get anywhere "good" in life. You taught me that I am unimportant, just an unexpected annoyance in the course of your life.
Want to know where all those lessons got me?
Nowhere. I suffered miserably when I did what you'd told me. Now that I think about it, you suffered when you did those things, but you were toocaught up in the "Hollywood Glamour" to notice what was happening.
Guess what, Mom? I got a record deal. Something you told me I'd never get. Tomorrow I'll be heading off on a world tour with some of the best known musicians ever. Want to know how I did it? I was myself. I don't pretend around people anymore. I do what's best for me and I don't purposely or knowingly hurt other human beings just so I can feel like I'm better than I really am.
Because of you and your failures, I've learned. I'm stronger. And surprisingly, I'm grateful to you because of what you taught me. Right now you're probably snaking your way into another person's life and destroying their dreams. I hope that someday you realize that what you've been doing is wrong, and that it's been wrong from the beginning.
If you ever want to talk, I'm sure you'll be able to find me.
Tess