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My Mother Doesn’t Like Me (and That’s Okay)

10/09/2025

I don’t really think my mother likes me, not in the cinematic, “we’re enemies” kind of way. more in the chemical-mismatch way. I’m the smell she can’t stand but can’t identify in the fridge. she spends all of saturday gutting it, muttering about “chicken-shit” leftovers, and by the end she’s mad at the fridge itself; …