Forgive Me, Ummy!
I forgive you, Ummy! I hope you will forgive me as well! I know I was rude and harsh towards you. As were you towards me. I'm convinced now that we lived in the wrong time and wrong place. Maybe in another world, we might have a healthy mother-daughter relationship that we didn’t get in this world! Forgive me for being away from you and for not taking care of you anymore! I wanted to do my bit till the end but they didn’t allow me. My grandmother prevented me from having you back to your house in Luxor. She said she wouldn’t let you out of the family house in Aswan. She asked her male children to keep you there even after she died. What could I do, Ummy? Even my siblings didn’t say a word. If they had talked to her, they could have softened her up. They didn’t speak up. You are our mother and we have the right to spend some time with you in your house whenever we’re available. The house does feel differently without you being there. That moment when I asked my grandmother to take ...
