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These are the best stories from our slash Best of Redditor updates from

2023, starting with the most upvoted post of the year.

I want to start calling my adoptive mum, mum instead of her name. My bioparants put me,

a 15 year old boy up for adoption when I was born. So I was always in foster homes until I was 12.

I had a teacher, Janice, who was 33, who was my home room teacher.

Janice found out about me being a foster kid and how I wished I had a family. Janice had also been a foster kid growing up,

and so long story short,

she then became my foster mum and adopted me.

Janice is the best mom I could have ever asked for.

She's been so unbelievably kind and loving to me

and I absolutely adore her. The problem is that I don't call her mom. I just call her

Janice. I want to start calling her mom, but I have no idea

how to without making it awkward. Please help me internet strangers. So let's get

straight into the update.

So, I was not expecting this big of a response.

Thanks to all of you for responding and some of the ideas made me really tear up.

Anyways, this morning I went to Janice and I said,

Good morning, mom. She just looked at me and started crying,

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