Diana Kolman-Taddeo English Composition 102 Prof. Keis Fran’s mother is dying of cancer but she has lived a more full and satisfying life that her daughter although it had been a sad one. Fran’s mother had, of course, been married and at one time been devoted wife, mother and homemaker. She had endured a difficult marriage since her husband was “rigid, inflexible and unforgiving.”(p. 6) She probably put up with such a nasty man …showed first 75 words of 944 total…

…showed last 75 words of 944 total…contact of her biological daughter with the enclosed photo brought all these sad naked truths to light. Fran’s teenage pregnancy had indeed make her life “dead” as her mother had exclaimed. Although her mother was dying and her own life took a tragic turn with Fran’s pregnancy, her life was still more fulfilled than Fran’s, or, as she said to her daughter, “even half-dead I’m more alive than you are.”(p.16)