Heart Broken

Yesterday we were talking about Franco and Spanish civil war during dinner time. Yaya mentioned that she read somewhere that some Spanish people still think life under Franco’s rule was still better.
Before I could say anything further she told me, “mom, your mother is a dictator” and the next sentence was ” mom, you are such a wonderful person and I can’t believe you are born of that woman”
That woman is still my mother and that woman adored Yaya more than anyone because Yaya is her first grandchild.
I don’t know how Franco and Spanish civil war and my mother are connected. I certainly don’t deny that my mother has her faults. But it hurts knowing the implications of the family feuds and how much it affects my children and that there are no solutions.

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