I was watching Friends reruns yesterday, and happened to watch The One with the Cake. Joey did a dramatic reading of this book, which moved his friends. For many years, I didn't think this book was real until I looked it up. Indeed, it's a nice heartwarming, bittersweet story of a mother and her son. I imagined Joey's voice reading it to me.

There is a lingering sense of creepy clinginess with the way the mother assures her sleeping child/son/grown adult that she likes him. Then again, I'm not a parent, so I wouldn't know what is squicky or not when it comes to expression of feelings regarding one's child.

UPDATE 5 YEARS LATER

Guess who's about to give birth? Lol. Despite the low rating of 2 stars that I initially gave this book, I went out and bought a copy at a thrift store so I could add this to my son's library. The story still creeps me out a bit, but I get it now. That's not to say I'd climb a ladder into my adult son's bedroom in the middle of the night, but I'll sure as heck let my son son I'll love him forever. Just not creepily.