Marcia Flanders Stornetta
MARCIA FLANDERS STORNETTA, a freelance writer, lives with her husband, Scott, and their two children in Morristown, New Jersey. She and her daughter have recently written a children's book about diabetes.
Mothers and Daughters: Parting
Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 1
No husband summoned me to Koshi. BYU, Washington, D.C., and a mission president in Tokyo summoned me long before a husband. And even when it was a husband, he summoned me no farther than California. But I too was my mother’s prize, her only daughter. And I suspect each time I left, my mother’s feelings were no different than Lady Otomo’s. For Mother ex pressed her longing and loneliness not in a poem or a letter, but in carefully selected personal stories shared over a sink of peach pits, skins, and sterile quart jars.
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