Mother's Day is complex

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Mother’s Day arrives each year with its soft commercials and pink ribbons, as if love were always tidy and uncomplicated. But for many of us, it is a day that sits heavy in the chest—a day that doesn’t quite know what to do with all the truth.

For some, there is grief. The kind that flowers can’t touch. An empty chair at the table, a voice now only memor…