'I sat at her feet, my mother, her thighs against my shoulders and my head upon her knee as she’d transform me.'
Hair, in our household, was the paper upon which the stories of our past, our present, and our future could be written unapologetically. Her hands, the pen that scrawled down the words with nimble agility upon a scalp that held as solidly as a pen. The twists and knots of the braids the ink. The wince and the ache after, the drying of the ink.
Then she’d spray my scalp with oil sheen and rub her fingers over my scalp. She’d bring me to a mirror and ask me to look myself: some new me standing taller, face tighter, eyes red from crying, but smiling, the ache slowly subsiding.
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