Things I Could Never Tell My Mother

Ollie: There's a way when you read poetry and you study it, you learn that I might write an entire book of intense poems. And I'm like, God, how crushing that would be to my mom to think all of our time together was reduced to Ollie's intense moments. But we had wonderful Christmases. She and I went shopping all the time. You know, getting older, you look back and think, wow, they really did do the best. They had it tough at times.