She just ignored it.
In her confusion.
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She knew I did this on purpose.
She tried to hit me.
“Chelsea, do you know how important this
interview is? You are trying to ruin my life!”
I ducked.
Mom missed.
“Mom, I did this for you. It’s really hot, and it
saves time to have a bald head.
“Chelsea, you’re doing this on purpose! You
don’t have any shame!
Due to inertia.
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Mom fell down.
She pointed at me while sitting down.
“Mom, you were the one who said that a bald
head is the best hairstyle! You said that ment
don’t get any ideas! If anything, this proves
how much skill you have, and you can get
ahead with or without hair! The company
doesn’t care, they just care about your skills!”
I mimicked her the other day.
I gasped.
“Wait, you care this much about your hair?
Are you trying to seduce your boss!”
“Mom! It’s not good to be a side chick!”
I called my family in shock.
Every time they picked up, I cried.
“Please convince her! Please don’t let her
become the side piece to her boss! It’s
wrong!”
“Please! She’s trying to seduce her boss! We
worked so hard to get here! I’m going to work
hard and care for her when I graduate!”
“Grandma, my mom always listens to you.
Dad and Mom were married for twenty years,
and everything is going so great! What am I
gonna say to Dad if she cheats on him!”
The relatives were calling her phone.
She didn’t answer.
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And quickly lost her mind.
She didn’t have the strength to go to the
interview.
She went on the train home.
Turns out that Mom didn’t get the job.
The company wanted to hire someone
internally.
Mom and a bunch of other people were
placeholders.
No one took the interview seriously.
Except Mom.
She wasn’t gonna get ahead with an
So she needed to get ahead.
Mom freaked out from getting her head
shaved.
And I hit a nerve.
Mom left, and I was free to grow my hair
back.
I got my reputation back.
Everything was good.
But after I took Mom’s high ground away
from her.
To get me to apologize.
She threw a fit in the principal’s office.
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She wanted to kick me out.
But I was the only student with a full
scholarship.
The principal and teachers couldn’t get rid of
- me.
She couldn’t kick me out.
Mom took away my allowance and
scholarship.
She said she wasn’t gonna give me any
money even if I died.
It was normal.
After giving up on her motherhood.
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I wasn’t in pain.
After adulthood.
I wasn’t going to get free soup.
I didn’t have tuition.
The high reward of the program would pay for
my college.
Unlike Mom.
I’d scratched her hair and injured her hair
follicle.
The hair that grew back was patchy.
She went to spas and doctors.
She couldn’t get her hair back.
The company fired her for not looking good.
She was home all the time, but she wasn’t
crazy.
She wanted to spread stories about me being
a prostitute.
Mom wanted to ruin my life.
I was their daughter.
Anything that she said about me also
reflected on her.
The rumors spread to Dad’s job, and to his
partners.
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It ruined a big business deal.
Dad was hands off when at home.
He wasn’t involved, or mediating.
But when this got in the way of his work.
He hit her.
That was the first time he hit her in the last
18 years.
He told her that he would divorce her.
Mom was angry.
