The Family That Chose Me
Some memories don’t fade—they replay like a scene you never asked to keep. Mine started at ten, the day I realized my mother had already made her choice. Years later, at 32, I stood in the rain at my grandmother Brooke’s funeral, watching the only person who truly raised me being lowered into the ground.
Across the cemetery, my mother, Pamela, stood with her polished family—her husband, Charlie, and their son Jason, the child she proudly called her “real” family. She barely glanced my way. In that moment, I realized I wasn’t just mourning my grandmother. I was mourning the childhood I never got.
My mother had always treated me like a mistake. When she married Charlie and had Jason, I went from child to inconvenience. I still remember her cold calmness the day she told me I wouldn’t be living with them anymore.
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