Because I was afraid if I said everything that she meant to me -- that I owed perhaps the best parts of who I became to her care, and that the words "I'm sorry" were like a thimble to bail out all the guilt and shame and rage I felt over everything she had endured to care for me for as long as she had -- I thought if I said those words to her, I would never stop crying again.
Jeg var bange for at fortælle hende, alt det, hun betød for mig - - at jeg havde hende at takke for den person, jeg er i dag. Og ordene "undskyld" virkede som en bagatel, - - i forhold til al den skyld, vrede og skam jeg følte - - over alt det, hun var gået igennem for at have taget sig af mig så længe. Jeg tænkte, at fortalte jeg hende alt det, ville jeg aldrig holde op med at græde.