Young FVO: She would walk into our room first thing in the morning and start singing! We’d be like "Mom, please stop!” We used to hate it!
And I’ll never forget this one time in high school, I had really bad acne and mom would make me stand in front of the mirror and point at every pimple and make me say “I love this one, I love this one”.
It’s the little things… like how growing up, all my paintings were Picassos and that I had the prettiest chin in the world, even though we both knew I didn’t!
Older FVO: Sounds like you miss your mother…
Young FVO: I do miss you, mom. All the time. I'll see you again tomorrow okay.
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