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Jaimis Ulrich's avatar

I think you already know how I feel about this, Stephanie. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing ♥️

Stephanie Dee Smith's avatar

Thanks for sharing this!

Tony V. (Formerly Anton)'s avatar

My pleasure, Stephanie. Your words carry both ache and liberation, and I felt every note. The part about forgiveness not being tidy but “soul-scraping” rang especially true. And the irony of becoming her caregiver—my God, life really does have a strange poetry to it, doesn’t it?

Thank you for writing this. You didn’t just share your story—you gave language to something many of us have carried in silence.