For a mother the project Of raising a boy is the
most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can
watch him. as a child, play the games she was not
allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas,
aspirations, ambitions, and values or whatever
she has left of them: she can watch her son. who
came from her flesh and whose life was sustained
by her work and devotion. embody her in the
world. so While the project Of raisinga boy is
fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to
bitterness, it is the only project that allows a
woman to be to be through her son, to live
ghrough her son
Andrea D
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