Mother's Day Secrets

2008-05-11T17:58:00.019-04:00

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail
in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

-----Email Message-----
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:29 PM
Subject: in response to a mother's day post secret

the day before my grandmother died, she wrote her name and mine on a piece of paper. it makes me happy that she held on to that one memory even when others were gone.

i still have the piece of paper. reading that person's secret motivated me to go out and get it framed.

-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:13 AM
Subject: stretch marks and motherhood

My first child is due on Wednesday and stretch marks appeared just this week. I could care less . . . I just want to meet my daughter!

-----Email Message-----
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 11:36 PM
Subject: mom thinking you're mad

my mom once told me that if we ever got into a fight and something happened to one of us, that she knows I love her no matter what I said or did, and I should know the same

(she's sitting next to me as I type this... I love you mom!)

-----Email Message-----
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:37 PM
Subject: Mom and cancer postcard.

My mom died of cancer when I was 17. I'm almost 24 now and I'm still angry and I'm still sad, but I'm finally having a good year. Kids like us are everywhere. We find each other. We help each other feel a little less alone.

-----Email Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 4:26
Subject: re: mothers day secrets.

I called my mom on mothers day, to tell her happy mothers day.
She asked me who I was.
My mom deleted my phone number when she found out I was gay.

-----Email Message-----
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:56PM
Subject: Mothers Day

After I read through all the Mothers Day secrets, I emailed the link to my mother. She called and we just finished sharing some of our family secrets over the phone. But here is one more I didn’t tell her.

I am going to surprise her with concert tickets.

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