“I’ve told you the truth. Let me make something clear to you. Your feelings are hurt, but you don’t know real grief, Violet. I lost six babies, one right before I watched my best friend… my sister, wither away and die and I became a mother to her child. I couldn’t grieve her like I needed to because we had you and you needed us more than I needed to cry. I lost my husband two years later. Day in and day out, I split everything I had between my career and being the best mother I could be, regardless of how I gained that title. “You think if I didn’t have time to grieve the loss of two people I
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