Happy Mothers Day...
You were so young in this picture but this is how I choose to remember you. We lost you in 2022 and I wish I knew what the extend of your condition was and why it took you so quickly. My mother was an Alcoholic growing up, (i was born May 1994) she gave my brothers and I up and our father was deported not long after. She had a criminal background with some being Child Abandonment and I believe drugs use, I was told we were removed from her custody when I was 2 and I didnt see her again until I was in Junior High, like 6 or 7th grade and our relationship was rocky, I would want to visit her and my siblings but everytime It turned into my mom getting really drunk and myself having to mother my younger siblings. I stopped going over to my mom's in high school and I never returned or laid eyes on her again. The year she died I was in Yellowstone National Park, my older brother reached out to my younger brother who then told me and I didn't know how to feel because I was never told she was sick only that she was fighting a losing battle. Any reading would be appreciated, just thinking about her today. We had a estranged relationship but she was the one who carried me for months.