There was so little to go on that everyone decided she had just run away. She had gotten tired of her alcoholic husband and walked away from her whole life for a new start. There will never be a world in which I believe that. She wasn’t that person. She was an amazing mother. She was my best friend. She was both our cheerleader and our total support system, our hand to hold in the dark. There was nothing she loved more than being our mom. She never would have left us.
