League of Extraordinary Women By Chris Billings
_________________ I may not have had superheroes on my underwear but I did have one who washed my underwear she also fed me cared for me disciplined me when I was wrong praised me when I did something well raised five children all while living with the knowledge she would not see any of us reach adulthood I had one who took me into her home treated me like a part of her family made me her son acted like a mother not just because I married her daughter but because that was the kind of person she was and it was hard when her powers started to fade because I didn’t want to watch her go I have one who took a scared, insecure young man gave him the confidence to become who I’ve become she’s my lover my best friend who, for the past 35 years, when I’ve gone to sleep has still been there the next morning loving me and though she doesn’t laugh at my jokes anymore she encourages me to keep telling them