A Mother’s Love is Not Required for Life, by Felicia Sullivan

Published: October 11, 2007, 5:55 pm

Our friend Felicia Sullivan will have a new book coming out soon. Titled The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life, the book is a biography of her growing up with a beautiful but deceitful drug-addicted mother, her life amongst drug dealers, succumbing to drug abuse and finally redeeming herself. The Huffington Post has a particularly moving piece on Felicia’s troubled relationship with her mother - and how she came to realize that a mother’s love is not required in life. Giggling, my mother reveals that she’s leaving us for another man, one she met in a bar — he’s taking her to Disneyland! Disneyland! — and could I not call her for six months, make that a year, because she’s concerned that I would inevitably wreck her happiness. You always do. In the same breath, my mother tells me, Oh, the sex. You wouldn’t believe. I start to shake because my mother is leaving us for a man and mouse ears. I look up at my mother,

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