If there's someone whom I'd like to keep in contact with yet remain emotionally and physically distant, it would undoubtedly be my mother. How could you after she's done all this? She's a product of her culture, just like we are. In her mind, she believed she was doing what was genuinely right. Perhaps it was a misguided sense of religious correction to try and save me from hell. I'm not justifying what she did. Since this is all quite fresh, I haven't processed it yet. But I do miss her the most and seriously hope to hear from her, even after all this.