Writing Prompt: Why Mother Pigs Eat Their Young
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In "Why Mother Pigs Eat Their Young," Kristin Reed remembers something her mother once said to her:
"I felt my mother's expression take over my face, the one she had when gazing speculatively over the top of a tattered magazine at her clamoring batch of children one long, dark, winter afternoon; the expression she wore when she said that now she knew why mother pigs eat their young."
Think about adages or sayings of your mother or other parent figure and write about how those words have affected your life.