"Christmas: Baby Please Come Home"
by: Mercedes
Thu Dec 24, 2009 at 17:25:18 PM EST
http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/14610/christmas-baby-please-come-homeThere's a red envelope sitting near the paper shredder. It arrived about a week ago, the shape betraying it as an obvious Christmas card, the writing on the front looking like my mother's. The envelope is still unopened.
This happened last year, too. At that time, my partner got tired of looking at it sitting there, and said, "do you mind if I open that thing? You never know, maybe she's had a change of heart. You never know what it will say until you open it."
"I know what it will say," I tell her. "It will have a lengthy sentimental series of verses of love for one's son printed on the card, and inside, there will be a two-page handwritten letter from mom about how she prays for me every day and asks God to take away this feeling that I'm a girl. She'll tell me all about how Jesus can supposedly fix it all in an instant when I ask, and then she'll go on about how much I've hurt her and the family by my transition.
