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Today's first story comes from consistentistent Dirt 788 and says,

Learned a family secret a few months ago.

And it's been on my mind due to the holiday.

I lost my mother when I was very young.

And my father remarried to a woman, I grew up calling mom.

Mum has an older son and a daughter who is about 12 years older than me.

It was never a secret that mom wasn't my biological mother.

I see my stepbrother on the holidays, but I've had zero contact with my step-sister.

I learned why that was.

My mom and step-sister moved in after she and my dad got married.

I don't remember her being

very nice and then she was just gone. I was told that she had to go away for a while.

Mum brought me everywhere with her. The store, to her friends places, to the zoo, etc.

She helped me get ready for school and helped me with schoolwork. She watched a handful of kids' movies in the theater that looking back were likely indecipherable

nonsense to her.

All three of those Pokemon movies, for example.

She cried at my high school graduation, even when she promised me she wasn't going to cry.

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