<p>In the middle of the editing process....</p>
<p>Last year Mother’s Day fell between my two AP exams. I studied with two friends, one of whom went off about how her mom had been unreasonably irritable that morning. I knew it’d be a while before we’d move on to plant reproduction, so I opened up my notebook to a blank page and decided to write my own mom a letter.
“I barely even know who you are,” I wrote.
She vanished on a spring day in 2006.</p>