Mom, Please Love Me
Before I ever existed, my parents had been deeply in love, about to walk down the aisle.
But the night before their wedding, my mother was attacked—dragged into an alley by a drunk stranger. When they found her, there wasn't a single spot on her body that wasn't bruised or torn. She was barely clinging to life.
From that day on, my mother fell into an abyss. To help her heal, my father took her traveling, to therapy, tried everything he could to pull her back from the edge. Eventually, she slowly opened up again, and they finally held the wedding that should have happened years ago.