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letters to my mother: questions

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 letters to my mother  I've spent the last few months trying to process every complicated feeling I've harbored since my daughter's birth to no avail.  In an attempt to hurl myself forward through this next phase of acceptance, the next series of posts will consist of letters I never intend to send.   __________________________________________________________________________________ -one: q uestions- Dear In-Suk,            So it seems not a day goes by that I don't think about you in passing.  Being a mother now, I can't help but think about you and wonder what our relationship was like before you gave me away.  I can't remember what it was like...but you can.   My daughter is nearly seven months old now.  Your granddaughter.  She is, what I like to call, a ham.  My honey ham.  I just mean she's rather silly sometimes.  When she gets excited she starts flapping her arms like a baby bird ...