My Stepson Rejected My College Fund Offer, Saying ‘You Can’t Buy Your Way Into Being My Mom’ — 5 Years Later, He Called to Announce Important News

Every word he spoke to me was barbed, and it hurt.

I tried not to cry in front of him.

David would find me sobbing in our bedroom sometimes, and he’d pat my shoulder and say, “He’ll come around. He’s just hurting.”

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