The first car Daddy got me was on cinder blocks. It didn’t run. And I don’t remember asking him for it. I was a freshman in college at Wayne State…
Author
Monice Mitchell Simms
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Creative Nonfiction / Essay
SORRY, I CAN’T COME OUT AND PLAY. MY MOTHER IS DYING
by Monice Mitchell Simms September 15, 2017I am the oldest daughter of Juanita Joanne Mitchell. She was 19 when she met my father, Robert. Twenty when she married him and had me. My mother was the…