Dear Son .....Love, Mom
Dear Son, It's the night before you graduate and I'm starting to get emotional. I've been so busy the last couple of weeks living in the moment I haven't allowed my self to appreciate your journey. You've come such a long way and I am so proud of your accomplishment. You were born to very young parent who themselves were not in the most imaginable situation to raise a child. I found out I was pregnant with you the summer before my senior year. Pregnancy, teenage emotions and logic, not great combinations. My parents were believers of tough love and I was ordered to either give you up or grow up fast. I considered giving you up for adoption but realized I had been selfish enough. So the work began. I moved out and in with your father, his foster parents bought is an apartment next to theirs and we lived as a couple our senior year. We were responsible for getting ourselves to school everyday and working for our food and money. My pregnancy was a very healthy...