How I Healed My Strained Relationship with My Mother
âGive without remembering. Receive without forgetting.â ~Unknown
It was Sunday, April 12, 2015. I had just finished my grocery shopping and was about to leave the parking lot when I noticed a call from my dad.
I called him back so we could talk for a few minutes. He said, âTroy died.â I thought of his friend Troy, who Iâd met a couple years prior, and said I was sorry to hear his friend had passed. My dad realized I had not heard him correctly. He said âTroy, your stepdad, he died this morning.â
I felt like someone had punched …