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Chapter Fifty-Five
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Valentine
“Valentine is that you?” My mom asked as soon as she laid her sight on me.
I stared at her and I was frozen for a moment. I don’t even know exactly how to feel. Seeing my mother for the first time since the last time I cursed her and drove her away from the house gave me mixed feelings. There’s a lot of emotion stirring up inside my fickle heart and I’m not sure how to handle it. I don’t think I can face this fiasco that I just purposely dove into at all. I’m going to say it’s pretty clear that I’m not angry anymore however, there are still some needles stuck in my chest.
Looking at my birth mother now, she most definitely aged three times than my father did. I’m not trying to judge her for that but the changes on her were strikingly evident that even a youngster could notice at first sight. I stood frozen in front of her for a while long
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