My mom died when I was 3 yrs old and she was just 36 yrs old she had breast cancer for aout 2 yrs before her death. Being a mother now I only can imagine what pain she must have been in to relize that she would never see her children grow and would have to pick someone to stand inher place. She picked her sister Kathy to raise my brother who was 16 and myself 3, she and her sister kathy were in every since of the word best friends and even though I grew up without my birth mom I had the next best thing her very best friend who is not onlt my mom but also one of my best friends though the chioce must have been hard for my mom to make that choice she made a great one and I feel like I know her just as well as I would have had she been alive.

Stephanie
Columbia, SC