I Gave Up 22 Years of My Life Raising My Triplet Nieces – What They Did at Their College Graduation Made Me Drop to My Knees

stopped after that. Sometimes I wondered if the girls noticed. They never mentioned it.

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Some nights, I lay awake and counted the numbers in my head, the way people do after being broke for too long. Not money. The other kind.

Had I done enough?
Had I said the right things when they needed them?
Did they know I loved them, or did they only know I was exhausted?continue reading …