blindsided

I thought I was out of revelations regarding my birth. It turns out my mother’s mother was very good friends with my dad’s first wife. My grandma was more of a parent to me than my father by a million, and made me feel better about myself than my mom ever did.

I guess my grandmother had nothing else but us kids, after my mom devastated my grandmother’s peer group, by breaking up a marriage of a man 15 years older than herself.

I miss my grandma. Her old friend, my half-sibs’ mom, has been really nice to me lately on Facebook. Maybe someday we’ll talk about my grandma…

Mom always told me those people in my dad’s family didn’t like us, but she never revealed the extent to which she devastated all their lives.