{"id":16385,"date":"2026-04-06T18:57:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=16385"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:57:39","slug":"my-mother-abandoned-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=16385","title":{"rendered":"My Mother Abandoned Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"170\"><strong data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"165\">My Mother Abandoned Me\u2026But One Hug Changed Everything<\/strong> \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"172\" data-end=\"394\">I was five when my mother left me at an orphanage, a plastic bag of my clothes in hand. Life taught me to guard my heart. I was adopted, returned, and grew up thinking love was conditional\u2014until I became a mother myself.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"733\">Years later, my daughter brought home a young woman I didn\u2019t recognize. It was Jerry\u2014my sister. While our mother abandoned me, Jerry had survived on her own, quietly helping me from afar. That day, we hugged for the first time in decades, and I realized something incredible: family isn\u2019t only about who leaves\u2014it\u2019s about who shows up.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"735\" data-end=\"821\">From abandonment to reunion, Jerry\u2019s love healed wounds I thought would never close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; My Mother Abandoned Me\u2026But One Hug Changed Everything \u2764\ufe0f I was five when my mother left me at an orphanage, a plastic bag of my clothes in hand. Life taught me to guard my heart. I was adopted, returned, and grew up thinking love was conditional\u2014until I became a mother myself. Years later, my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16387,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions\/16387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}