“This is not up for discussion Alice, I have asked you to leave. You may contact me if you need to come back for something, but anything else, I don’t want to know.” Lifting her cup of coffee, she seemed completely unphased as she turned walking out of the kitchen toward her room. My voice screaming out, “but I am your daughter!” No hesitation, no looking back. She was serious, completely serious. She was throwing me out like one of her old boyfriends, no strings attached. I never had the best relationship with my mother, but I never expected this, even as she closed the door to her room behind her. Cold as ice, the only mother daughter relationship this was like was that of a polar bear and her cub. The mother just deciding okay your old enough now, you’re an enemy, a rival, time to go

