My Parents Abandoned Me At 13—Unaware That 15 Years Later They’d Be Begging At My Door
My name is Diana Meyers. I’m 28 years old and 15 years ago, my own parents threw me out of the house when I was just 13. Last week, they showed up at my uncle Harold’s will reading, the man who raised me for the past 15 years with confident smiles and a private attorney, absolutely certain they’d walk out with millions.
But when attorney Margaret Morrison opened that sealed envelope and began reading, those smiles vanished. And when she reached clause seven, my mother, the woman who once declared I was no longer her daughter, shot to her feet, her face chalk white, her mouth hanging open in disbelief.
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To understand why my mother reacted that way, I need to take you back to the summer of 2010, when I was a 13-year-old girl who believed she was the root cause of every problem in her family. Growing up in a modest house in Southeast Portland, I learned early that love in our family wasn’t distributed equally.
My father, Richard Meyers, worked as an auto mechanic at a shop downtown.
He was a man of few words, and most of those words agreed with whatever my mother said.
My mother, Sandra, worked the checkout line at a grocery store and ran our household with the precision of someone who always knew exactly who deserved what.
My sister Tiffany was 2 years older than me. She had mom’s golden blonde hair, mom’s bright blue eyes, mom’s easy laugh. Everyone said so.
Tiffany looks just like you did at her age, Sandra. And mom would beam.
I look like our late grandmother. Dad’s mother.
Brown hair, brown eyes, quiet disposition. Mom never said it was a bad thing. She just never said much about me at all.
The differences showed up everywhere.
For Tiffany’s 15th birthday, mom threw a party with 15 guests, a three tier cake from the bakery on Hawthorne, and a karaoke machine rental. For my 13th birthday, 3 months later, it was the four of us around the kitchen table with a marked down cake from the grocery store where mom worked. The frosting said happy birthday with no name, a generic leftover from someone else’s canceled order.
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