Life doesn’t always happen unexpectedly. Sometimes, people go on for years believing in something, only to know that their world was not as real as they thought. In this article, we will share a collection of stories which are filled with surprises, moments of truth, and the challenge of facing what was hidden for so long.
Story 1:
After six years together, my fiancée called off our wedding, and in the note she left me, she wrote, “You were a soft place to land while I was between phases of my life.” Six years. We were four months away from getting married.
Story 2:
Story 3:
On her d3athbed, my stepmother (who had raised me from the time I was 3 years old and died when I was 35) told me that she never thought of me as family but just didn’t know how to get rid of me after my dad abandoned us.