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#RealTalk vol 36

For most of my young life into adulthood, I struggled to reconcile feeling abandoned by my mother. I desperately wanted to know why she left me. I longed to feel close to my mom, to know that she loved me, that she was proud of me, and that I was important to her, but that wasn’t easy considering she left me with my great-grandmother for years.

I never understood why my mother chose to leave me. There had to be something severely wrong with me because all other mothers, you know, the ones on television, they never left their little girls. No, ma’am. Florida Evans, Carol Brady, Clair Huxtable, and Vivian Banks never left their families no matter how cray-cray they were.

I spent years trying to understand what horrible thing I did to cause my mother to leave me. To compensate, I looked for a mother in almost every woman I met. I suppose some of them sensed my craving for a mother’s love and treated me with kindness, but I couldn’t shake the ghost of my absent mother until I met Betsy.

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