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It was a life-changing moment. I really can't put into words

The reason why I was called to the morgue, because a few of you were probably like, well, if you didn't see your mother for 20-some years, how did this happen

I had reached out, like I said, to find my birth parents. And I reached out and I found my birth father first, who I really didn't want to speak to

But in doing so, he was able to give me information about my birth mother. and unfortunately she passed away like two weeks before I actually wouldn't have been able to meet

her but her parents were a piece of work and to whatever word you want to call it to go to the

morgue to identify their own daughter's body they had just given up on her and so there was no one

else left to do it and they asked me if I would do it and so I said okay so I went with the picture

that they had given me to try to identify her face and all this and just I didn't give them the story

I just said I was her daughter and they gave me her belongings. And so I'm going through it and there's like AA, there's all these

like pamphlets, try to get clean. And she was trying, she was trying really hard to get her life straightened out

And then that's when I found the drawing. And at first I was like there no freaking way Like this is a joke or something But instantly I recognized you recognize your stuff even as a child you know that you know it something that you made and it it literally

knocked the wind out of my the sail out of my way like whatever I'm trying to say I can't even put

it into words it literally I literally had thought you know one thing like she didn't care she gave

up. It was just easier or whatever. And then to be given this gift from this woman that I didn't

even know, to know the truth, just, I mean, I knew that I was loved. I knew that I had been wanted

I knew that I had been fought for. And for me, that was everything. It changed the trajectory

of my whole life. You know, now I'm, I'm not so quick to judge people when I see people on drugs

or when I see homeless people or when I see people that are struggling, I think back in my mind

you know, like there's obviously they have a story. There's more than what meets the eye. You know, everybody's going through something, so to say. It just, yeah, it was just

the greatest moment of my life all in one. So, yeah