{"id":55918,"date":"2025-03-20T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T01:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=55918"},"modified":"2025-03-20T01:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T01:00:26","slug":"my-late-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=55918","title":{"rendered":"My Late Mom\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-916.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-916.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-916-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My mom was my everything, and when cancer took her, she left me memories and a lifeline \u2014 a trust fund meant for my future. When my dad greedily started using it for his stepdaughter, it felt like he was erasing Mom\u2019s memory piece by piece. I couldn\u2019t let him take what was left of her or me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s this thing about losing someone you love \u2014 you carry the weight of it forever, even if it doesn\u2019t show. I lost my mom to breast cancer when I was ten. One day, she was there, brushing my hair and humming to some old rock song, and the next, she was gone. Just like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember our last conversation like it was yesterday. Mom, weak in her hospital bed, ran her fingers through my hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPromise me something, baby girl,\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnything, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t let anyone dim your light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She left me photos, scarves scented with vanilla, and a trust fund for my future. Dad promised to protect it, but after remarrying, his priorities shifted. Money disappeared\u2014for home repairs, car fixes, and, mostly, Emily, my stepsister. By college, the fund was nearly drained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I confronted Dad, he brushed it off. \u201cYou never needed it.\u201d But it wasn\u2019t just money. It was Mom\u2019s last gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he skipped my graduation for Emily\u2019s pageant, I snapped. I took legal action. A month later, the money was repaid, and I moved in with my grandparents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing on my own, I whispered to Mom\u2019s photo, \u201cI did it. I kept my promise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, I was free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom was my everything, and when cancer took her, she left me memories and a lifeline \u2014 a trust fund meant for my future. When my&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55920,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55918\/revisions\/55920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}