I’ve never been bossy.

I can distinctly remember several times when, as a girl, my Mom took one playmate or another aside and lectured her about bossing me around. Nobody’s Mom ever took me aside and gave me the bossy girl lecture. In retrospect my Mom has mentioned quite a few times that she wishes she’d let me handle my own problems more often as a child, but that’s another issue. (There are many, many issues.)

I’ve always been a sidekick, an appendage.

Until I became a Mother.

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