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You talked about how you planned to give me the biggest hug when we met and how you hated the title “stepmother,” and that you rather call me your “bonus mom.”

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I understand more than you think. I was scared, I was insecure, I didn’t know who I was going to be. Please know that you can always talk to me about anything and that I will always listen and never judge.

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Don’t wilt, but bloom.

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You don’t cry your heart out every morning while trying to figure out what God even means by, “plans to make you prosper, to give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11).”

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I learned that homes are people, not places.

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My mom doesn’t take any shit, so I was raised the same way.