I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I am a single mother - that is the reality.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I am single and happy.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

I am truly my mother's son.