Before You Were Mine

Question 1

Before you were mine: the child touching a symbol of the mother before she had children

Answer 1

my hands in those high-heeled red shoes, relics

Question 2

Before You Were Mine: Three verbs she associates with her mother, before she had children

Answer 2

sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine

Question 3

Before You Were Mine: speaker telling us of how much her mother’s life changed when she was born

Answer 3

“The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?”