Maya Angelou was so right when she said ;
“The heart of a woman should be so well hidden in God, that a man, to find it, would need to seek God first.”
My mother spent twenty years telling everyone my father had abandoned us.
I believed her.
Until I found an old box in her closet.
Inside were dozens of unopened letters.
All from my father.
Every birthday.
Every Christmas.
Every year.
I confronted my mother.
She started crying.