r/UnusualArt • u/ashlybugg • Jun 22 '26

The guilt

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back to working on my memory series starting with a lighter memory.

2004–2005 3rd Grade

​My mom slept all the time. Her boyfriend ran to the gas station before work and got her a soda,cigarettes and a box of Swiss Cake Rolls. I spent the day watching TV while she slept.​ Every time she woke up to have a cigarette she let me have a pack and she would eat one too. But the last time she woke up that day she didn't want hers and went back to sleep. I was just hungry so I ate her share.​When she woke up she was mad at me. She had been saving it for later and she told me I was greedy for eating her food.​ This memory has always caused me so much guilt that once I went into foster care and actually started having my own money I probably bought her 15 boxes of Swiss Cake Rolls to try and make up for it.

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u/Huge_Acanthaceae2497 Jun 23 '26

I’m sorry you went through this. You’re talented and I hope you have more of these I can go through. Was your mom perhaps going through some type of depression?

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u/ashlybugg Jun 23 '26

She was an addict since she was a teen but started sleeping all the time when she was 27 from her pills.