Highly Manga-fied Mothers Day

Mothers Day weekend started badly, with me glooming over my own mother, who died in 1995 and with whom I'd had a difficult relationship, and the fact that I hadn't been able to line up my sweet stepmother for anything either (she had things to do with her other family ... my late father was her 3rd husband). My mother-in-law, normally a delightfully dotty person, didn't help by attempting to monopolize the entire weekend. Thank God the Mr. came to the rescue with jewelry and a diplomatic chat with his mother last night and a manga shopping spree today ...

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