everything would be okay.
Those years are gone.
But now, when I look at her, I don’t see a woman who abandoned her child.
I see a mother who made a painful choice because she believed it was the only way to give her child a better life.
My father once told me she wasn’t mother material.
But at eighteen, I finally understood something he had never been able to explain.
Being a mother isn’t about wealth, education, status, or having a perfect home.
Sometimes, it’s about loving someone so
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