Open Letter To My Daughter On Mother’s Day

Diane Lee
7 min readApr 29, 2021

My truth is that being a mother has been heart-breaking

Image by samuel Lee from Pixabay

To my darling daughter,

You came into the world at 2:07 am on March 24, 1993. It was the happiest, most joyous, wonderful day of my life. When you were born, I held you in my arms — after a two-days-plus labour that ended in a Caesarian Section — and you looked up at me with your huge eyes, so peaceful. So…

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Diane Lee

Word wrangler and law student. Australian. Writer of personal essays and flash fiction. Cat whisperer.