Memoir

Living With Estranged Children and Siblings

Learning to Love Me and be Content so Others can Love Me.

My mother, second from the right, with her sisters and brother in the 1950s in Chicago

My mother was four years old when she was placed in a Black orphanage in Atlanta, along with her five sisters and one brother after the infant sister died of malnutrition. Their mother had been committed to the Milledgeville Insane Asylum after her son’s…