dear woman seeking mother

Dear "Woman Seeking Mother",

I was very interested in your notice in the New York Review of Books and I hope you don't mind me emailing you about it.  I am 43 years old and I live in London with my husband and two children.  I worked as a barrister until eight years ago and I am now a writer.  

My mother died eleven years ago, so clearly our situations are quite different.  Nevertheless, I was very struck by the idea that you want to make a relationship that might in some way echo the relationship you had with your mother.  I wondered whether you have always felt this, or whether this has recently come about.

I must be honest and say that I am emailing you because I am interested in the whole idea of what it means to be without a mother at various stages in life, particularly for a woman, but I am not interested in forging any kind of mother relationship.

With best wishes,

fellow motherless mother