Saturday, July 2, 2016

My Mom the Alchemist

When I was a young teen suffering from heartfelt pain, my mom said that my heart throughout life would be placed within the hottest fire, heated white-hot, removed and hammered hard, then plunged into the coldest of water. She said this process would be repeated, that I was being tempered. She said I had only two choices: to keep my heart open or to slam it shut.

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