“I wanted to be free, not only from the weight of responsibility that passed from my mother’s hands into mine, but also from the pain of being motherless, which I now carried with me everywhere.”
“I wanted to be free, not only from the weight of responsibility that passed from my mother’s hands into mine, but also from the pain of being motherless, which I now carried with me everywhere.”
© 2026 Tina Essmaker | portraits by Julia Robbs