Dear Sugar Letter #20

The Stories Our Mothers Tell Us

My mother at 18 with her mother.

Dear Sugar,

I lied to my kids a few days ago. When my sixteen-year-old daughter, fourteen-year-old son and I were discussing the terrible news about the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, they asked me if I’d ever had an abortion. I blurted no before I had time to think about it, but that isn’t true. I’ve had two. One d…