Also, the fact taht you used that picture is cracking my non-tampon ass up. FERREALZ.

My mother made sure her toys were much better hidden after that.

My father was an avid photographer and left behind a huge collection of photographs and negatives when he and my mother divorced. For some odd reason, my mother couldn’t bring herself to throw away the boxes and suitcases full of the stuff. I’ve been a photographer at heart since I was a young girl and at 12 told my mother I wanted to go through the images and organize them. She said she didn’t care, I could throw them out if I wanted to do so. I found lots of negatives of my mother naked and in lingere.

Also, around the same age I lived with my grandmother for awhile because my mother and I weren’t getting along. My younger sister lived with my uncle and my older sister remained with my mother. My younger sister and I attended school closer to my mother’s home and traveled to school by bus from our respective temporary homes and would meet in front of the school early so we could spend some time together. One morning we decided we wanted to get a few things we had left behind, but absolutely needed and walked the two blocks to my mother’s. The house was quiet when we walked in and, knowing my mother was chronically late, decided to wake her up for work. I opened her door and found her sleeping wrapped around her boyfriend. I pushed my sister quickly out the front door.

I found porn on my mother’s computer…in the browser history. It wasn’t her, it was my brother. Good thing she never really learned how to use the computer, ’cause she’d have been horrified. I emptied the cache, but not before I shared it with my sister.