“Would you rather beat your enemy or hug your enemy?” the boy asks.
“I’d rather hug my enemy. Then, my enemy would be my friend,” the mother answers.
“I don’t think that sounds good,” the boy replies.
“You asked and that’s my answer. I’d rather have a friend,” the mother says.
Rachel Mackow is a photographer and writer who resides on a ridge in the New Jersey Highlands with her husband and son.
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I'm a writer and photographer, observer and keeper of memories in this space, The Shagbark Speaks. In the other spaces of my life, which take most of my time, I am a wife, mother, native plant grower & natural lands restoration practitioner, and laundress.
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