Me: “Mina, you know what? I love you and your brother so much it hurts.”
Mina: “That’s good mum, we love you too.”
Pause a few seconds.
“Mum, is the reason you love us so much is because your mum doesn’t love you very much?”
I cried for a while after that. Half expected her to hand me a tissue box.
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