I came to take you when my cancer went into remission, but it was too late. “A wealthy family had taken you in, and they said you were happy. I was happy for you, Dylan, so I stayed away and watched you from afar all these years.
Look at you; you are rich and successful today. It’s due to their upbringing. I’m so thankful to them…and I’m sorry.
I don’t know why I couldn’t hold myself back when you took me in four years ago… I just couldn’t… I was scared to tell you the truth… I’m sorry…”
“OUT!” yelled Dylan. “Don’t you think you’re too mean to deserve such kindness? You can’t just walk into my life and then walk out.
Just leave!”
“Dylan, honey,” said Lyra. “Let’s talk about it—”
“It’s OK, Lyra,” Marlene said in tears. “I deserve this.
I shouldn’t have kept you all in the dark. I am sorry.”
And Marlene left Dylan’s house that evening. The kids asked Lyra and Dylan why Ganma Marlene left, and all Dylan told them was, “Because she wasn’t your grandmother!
She was a liar!”
A week later, Dylan regretted saying that. He found out that Marlene was not the biological mother who had abandoned him. Dylan chanced upon Marlene’s Facebook profile on the laptop because she hadn’t logged out, and he read another message her friend Linda had left her.
“You should tell him the truth, Marlene. How devastated will he be to learn that he has lost his mother twice? He deserves to know that his mother abandoned him in a park and that you took him in.
He will love you, Marlene. He really will…”
Dylan couldn’t believe what he had read. He went through her entire profile in tears, reading Linda’s messages, and guess what?
He found out Marlene had been living only a few blocks away from him. Dylan rushed to her home, and as soon as she answered the door, he cried his heart out and hugged her. “Mom,” he sobbed.
“I love you! I’m so sorry, Mom… I am just so sorry. Why didn’t you tell me you’re not my biological mother?
You… you saved me!”
“How would it matter, Dylan?” she asked, hugging him back. “I loved you like my son, and it pained me when I left you. I did abandon you… I was no different from your mother, except I left you because I loved you.”
“You’re coming home,” he said.
“That’s all I want. I love you.”
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