Mother's Day if you ask anyone is a sincere day to express gratitude and expressions of love to our mothers, however, could you imagine instead exchanging unpleasantness or goodbyes? Amanda Coyne, author of the article “The Long Good-Bye: Mother's Day in FederalPrison,” shares her observation of incarcerated women facing difficult relationships between them and their children. Coyne describes not only the emotions these women feel when separated from their families, but also the thoughts and actions that provoke powerful emotions from their families. She has a first-person experience, observing and studying the difficult relationships present that day in the prison, and highlighting in detail a few inmates facing the common problem her sister faces. After reading the article, I could not be more empathetic to the terrible circumstances in which these women. face, there should be some sort of exception for the children they left behind. Reading Coyne's article, I discovered a new appreciation for spending Mother's Day with my mother, far from a federal prison camp. Ayala 2 The author shares a personal observation at the beginning of his article, which concerns women carrying a gift of a flower received by their children. “Here, in the visiting room, we recognize the mother-inmates by the way they hold and touch their children and by the single flower perched in front of them” (Coyne75). She describes how doomed women graciously accept gifts from their children without hesitation, how eager they are to compliment and highlight the gifts they receive, and how they sniff their children more than the middle of paper. ... .others can't see them. Related to the topic, my nephew's father was incarcerated a year after his birth. My nephew occasionally visited his father but never understood why he had to stay in prison. These visits lasted until he was six or seven years old, then, as a result, he abandoned his father and began to live his life completely separated from him, abandoning all contact and even his existence. My nephew grew up with an angry heart that showed itself at times, and I was always deeply upset knowing that his father could never do anything about it. No child should have to bear the heavy burden of abandonment. Could Ayala 6 not imagine emotions, even relatively close to the subject, that lead me to be truly grateful and even more grateful to see and talk to my mother without consenting to the law..