I Became “Mom” to My Grandchildren When Their Mother Walked Away — Sixteen Years Later, She Returned

But they also had questions I couldn’t answer. Why did she leave? Where is she now? Does she think about us? Does she love us?

I tried to protect Laura in their minds, to keep her as a good person who’d made hard choices, who’d loved them enough to bring them somewhere safe even when she couldn’t be safe herself. I tried not to poison them with my own continue reading …