“And there were these huge bugs called titan beetles. Huge black beetles, long too. They’re not mean by any chance, but still scary,” My mom rumbled on and on about her Brazilian trip, and I did what I usually did - tuned her out. It was cool, the places she went. Yet when you’re left here in the same town with the same people, doing the same things, it becomes very not cool all of a sudden. She practically abandoned me during these trips, and if I were ever so lucky, she’d call at least once a month. Twice if she got hurt. “But enough about me, sunshine. How are you? What have you been up to? How was Christmas?” “It’s been fine, Christmas was fine.” Plain and simple. My mom drew her eyebrows together at my response, as if she should’ve expected anything more, and let the silence overtake us. I glanced at my mom and realized how different she was starting to look - gone was her porcelain skin like mine, and replaced with a beautiful golden color from the sun, reminding me of my
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