Updated proposal: Using Your Friend/My Friend, Ted by Beth Uznis Johnson as a template for my own memoir, I plan to include my grandmother in the piece as well. Using the memoir to explore the relationship not only between me and my mother, but between my mother and grandmother, and me and my grandmother. It is our similarities that bring me and my grandmother closer together, but what pull me and my mother further apart. Moreover, the relationship between me and my mother bears a strong resemblance to the relationship between my mother and grandmother. My memoir will (hopefully) explore the differences in relationships between generations.
Current Issues: With this topic, I’m having difficulty finding good enough stories that give me the ability to go into detail, while providing a substantial point to the larger purpose of the piece. With mother daughter relationships, it will be easy to find the relatability within the stories I choose, but it will be connecting those stories to a clear point that I think are going to be most difficult.
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