A Tale of Two Boyfriends

Acamea
4 min readMar 20, 2024
Splitshire

You probably expected this to be a story about my love life. It is not. It is however, a much more interesting story about my mother’s.

When you grow up without a father, it means your mother raises you without a parenting partner and sometimes, a romantic partner. So, she dates. Because like you and like me and like most everyone else, she wants love. She wants companionship and support along this bizarre journey we…

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Acamea

Pushcart Prize nominated essayist and memoirist. Author. Music connoisseur. Multi-passionate creative. I’ve lost a lot of sleep to dreams….