In 2000 my precious mom was diagnosed with cancer and died shortly after. I had just turned 11 at the time. Am now 21. Actually, it was 1 week precisely after my 11th birthday that mom died at the hospital. I didn’t know how to live without the woman that raised me. Dad was still around, but he was out working most of the time providing his family with money so I mostly spent time with mom. Dad is very harsh. He’s the kind of man that doesn’t really like being around people unless he has to. And in his ideal world you can only […]