The morning after my grandmother left her last $2,600 for baby Liam, I woke to a silence that shattered everything — my husband was gone, and so was the money. Fifteen years later, the man who abandoned us returned with a threat that froze my son in place.
You know, sometimes I look back at the parts of my life that felt like walking barefoot on broken glass, and realize how quickly everything can change.One day, you’re daydreaming about your future, and the next, you’re drowning in a reality you never asked for.For me, the crack that split my world in two happened when my son, Liam, was just a few months old.