My Mom Selfie

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By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Gypsie’s Mom circa 1954

In response to The Carrot Ranch’s May 9: Story Challenge in 99-words
Posted by Charli Mills – Compose a Mom Selfie in 99 Words

Looking into the mirror, I see my mom looking back at me. The woman in the mirror has the same wrinkles in nearly the same places. Though her eyes were black as coal and mine are a greenish-amber; they are the same shape and size and both having a distant, distracted look.

The shape of our lips and even the color was identical. It’s the outside wrinkles of our mouths that sets us apart. Hers from being a chain smoker, addicted to those Pall Mall cigarettes. Mine from laughter and love.

Too bad I got my dad’s nose!

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15 responses to “My Mom Selfie”

May 25, 2022

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Thank you so very much Sue and you look lovely to me! Beautiful hair! 😀

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May 25, 2022

suespitulnik

What a nice memory. I got all my Dad’s looks and short, stocky body. Welcome to the Ranch.

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May 25, 2022

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Thank you Norah! Understand that! 😊

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May 25, 2022

Norah

That’s beautiful. I think I am like my mother in many ways, but not so much in looks.

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May 22, 2022

Michael B. Fishman

This was a beautiful portrait and thanks for sharing. I’m pretty sure your dad’s nose isn’t so bad!

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1. May 22, 2022
  
  Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
  
  I loved my dad but he had a big honker with gigantic pores!! Think a smaller version of Karl Mauldin’s nose! LOL Thank you fit your kind words Michael …
  
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May 21, 2022

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Thank you Colleen. She passed away in 1996 but I remember everything aboug her in vivid detail. ❤️

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May 21, 2022

Colleen Chesebro: WordCraftPoetry

I also enjoyed the bit of humor you injected into your story. I love that you and your mom share so many characteristics. ❤

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May 20, 2022

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May 9, 2022

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Thank you so much Paula! 😊

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May 9, 2022

Paula Light

Wonderful essay, with a humorous touch! 💜

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May 9, 2022

Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

Add Scots/Irish on the other side = Celtic! ❤️

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May 9, 2022

pensitivity101

Your Mum was an attractive woman Ami. I too am like my mother, but apparently more so her mother, a grandmother I never knew.

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1. May 9, 2022
  
  Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris
  
  I knew and loved my grandmother deeply. (Mom’s mom) I am apparently like them both in physicality and a little else wise but I’m told I’m more like my Native American great
  grandmother in countenance, than any other. She was of the Sauk and Fox tribe in Tama, Iowa.
  
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  1. May 9, 2022
    
    pensitivity101
    
    Wow. That is some ancestry!
    
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