I Was Left In Trash Bags On An Aunt’s Doorstep, Raised By Love Not Blood, And When My Parents Returned Only After My Success Went Viral, I Invited Them To A Night That Exposed Who Built Me, Who Abandoned Me, And Why Some Families Are Chosen, Not Given Even When The Truth Stood In Public

I believed I was prepared for motherhood—the exhaustion, the fear, the overwhelming love. I expected the hospital room to be a place of healing and adjustment. Instead, it became the…