“I dream that I am standing between them, stretched so thin I am nearly invisible. They both need me on levels that feel inhumane: my mother, to care for her in the ways my dad couldn’t, the ways her own parents never did, and my son, to be for him what I never had and fear I will never be able to gi…”— Ashley Abramson, longreads.comTagged: mother, Mothering, Parenting, Loss