When Mom Left Us
8 min readApr 12, 2022
I was just 19 when she died and extremely ill-prepared and naive to the realities of the world I would eventually come to learn.
She was a single mother for many years. She did have a fiance but he wasn’t very fatherly. I learned some valuable information from him but otherwise, we all could have probably fared okay without him. He drank a lot and got ticked off easily by us kids. He was kind of a prick and my mom was definitely…
