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It was a life-changing moment. I really can't put into words
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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
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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
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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
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her but her parents were a piece of work and to whatever word you want to call it to go to the
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morgue to identify their own daughter's body they had just given up on her and so there was no one
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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
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that they had given me to try to identify her face and all this and just I didn't give them the story
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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
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like pamphlets, try to get clean. And she was trying, she was trying really hard to get her life straightened out
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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
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knocked the wind out of my the sail out of my way like whatever I'm trying to say I can't even put
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it into words it literally I literally had thought you know one thing like she didn't care she gave
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up. It was just easier or whatever. And then to be given this gift from this woman that I didn't
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even know, to know the truth, just, I mean, I knew that I was loved. I knew that I had been wanted
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I knew that I had been fought for. And for me, that was everything. It changed the trajectory
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of my whole life. You know, now I'm, I'm not so quick to judge people when I see people on drugs
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or when I see homeless people or when I see people that are struggling, I think back in my mind
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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
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the greatest moment of my life all in one. So, yeah
#Mental Health
#Death & Tragedy

