Plea of a 25-year-old man

“I want my mommy,” exclaimed Marlon Duke as he sat in the waiting area at the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon. This plea would have been considered normal for a little boy waiting to see the doctor, but Duke is 25 years old.
He was looking at a woman and her son who were together at the hospital. It pained his heart to see a mother showing love to her son, he said, because he never had that in his life. He gets jealous of people who are showered with love and affection, as he longs for someone to care for him.
Duke explained that he does not know what a mother’s love is, even though his mother is alive and living in Jamaica. What he remembers is that she would beat him on the head whenever he disobeyed her, as a result of which he became epileptic at age 14.
On the other hand, his mother Marie Gordon, described him as “very fantastic”. She explained that she has two bigger girls and she wished they were boys because as boys, they would have taken care of her as much as her son did.

Should Duke simply forget the past and move on? Is it a commentary on his character for a grown man to pine for his mother? Is such a man weak? And what of the mother? What should she do at this time? GIVE US YOUR VIEWS.