The next morning
“I will go first”
Tamara took a step forward and steadied herself. She wanted to get this over with and no one really wanted to go first. Olivia, Nico, Tamara, their grandma, Aiden and Sam stood around the burial ground, everyone uncomfortable. Tamara cleared her throat and began to speak, eyes intent on the dark-brown coffin where her mother’s body was.
“Being here, standing here today, I feel pity. I don’t feel anger, or sadness, I just feel pity. I feel pity that you ended up alone, alone and with a monster. Even until the end, you were the same woman that treated us poorly, the same woman that despised and undervalued everything we were. It is because of you that I don’t feel like I’m enough of a person, of a woman. It is because of you that I believe every bad thin
