The Color of Love

Jude Jones
2 min readMay 8, 2021

Mom didn’t share all of her world with me, but she did share this. Maybe because she had no one else to tell; maybe she because she thought I needed to hear.

I’ve told myself this story a hundred times, yet like a stone smoothed over by a rolling river, time’s robbed my memory of certain specifics. So excuse any embellishments, but know the feelings are accurate.

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Jude Jones

Go ask my pre-school, even talk to my old principal / He’d tell you how you I used to pack a number two pencil