“I remember… we had this old dog that had a litter of puppies.
And I walked in the bathroom one day and my Mother was standing there, kneeling down… and my Mother was bending over killing each one of these little puppies in the bathtub.
I remember I said ‘why?’
She said ‘Im just killing what I can’t take care of’
Then my momma said to me, she looked at me and she said…
‘I wish I could do that to you’.
Maybe she, maybe she shoulda.”