After all the shit I have been through in life and the journey you have read about in the previous pages, family troubles shouldn’t be a surprise. People say that the way you become or the attitude you carry is the gift or curse of the surroundings you were brought up in. When you read about my mother being a widowed, working woman raising a child and the problems she had to face, you probably guessed there were other things behind the curtain. And there is!

My mother was my father’s second wife. Even though I wanted to ask many times, I never questioned her personal choices for why she decided to marry a married man. She might