Blog # 5 - I'm Glad My Mom Died
In her memoir “I’m Glad My Mom Died” Jennette McCurdy writes in chapter 42 about getting her first apartment away from her mom. While Nickelodeon is paying for it, the apartment is still hers and she is excited to have a place of her own finally. When Jennete was growing up she had to sleep on the floor of her house on a Costco mat with her brothers. The house she grew up in was filled with all kinds of random stuff because of the fact that her mom was a hoarder and kept things that had no business being anywhere outside of a trashcan. So it’s safe to say that this apartment represented something special for Jennette. A chance to finally forge a path of her own apart from her mother and get out from under her shadow. I had an experience somewhat similar to this when I went to summer camp many years ago. For three weeks I was going to live on a college campus and take an economics class. As it was my first time away from home for an extended period of time, I w...