The writing titled “How To Grow Up,” written by Anne, talks about her mother having cancer and how it all went down. Her writing left me feeling sad. In the beginning the author says, “I could not hear what was going on on the other side of the phone, but it was making her cry, and now it’s making me cry.”This is showing the bond between her mother and her daughter. When one is sad, the other can  feel it in their heart and it is making her sad. The very next quote is showing how this child saw her mother for who she really is and not as most kids see their parents as. The writer writes, “That birthday was the turning point of a year that forced me to begin to see my mother as a person, someone whole and three-dementional, instead of someone who existed only as I saw her.”