“My mother always wanted a VW Beetle. I wonder how she’s doing - I haven’t seen her in a long time. She moved back to Poland a while back and we don’t really keep in touch, not even through email. A few years ago, while flipping through old family albums my girlfriend noticed something: my mother rarely smiled in family photos and had a very distant look in her eyes. And I don’t mean staged photos. I mean the candid ones, of her holding me or my brother on her lap as a baby.”
