My Horrible Mother Was Beloved and Adored

Susan Kelley
7 min readJun 24, 2021

And I Am So Tired of Hearing About It

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“Your mom was my favorite teacher, like, ever!”

“I just loved your mom. She was so good to everybody.”

“I remember your mom. She was always so…(insert great thing here).”

Stop. It.

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Susan Kelley

Susan is a runner, a mom of 3 grown children, and an avid traveler. She writes about humans, and wrote a book about false accusations of sexual assault.