Moms have read it. What do you know about your child that you will never tell him or her?

Have a daughter in college. Her first summer back home, I went to wash all her clothes she brought back.

As a college girl, it was at least four loads. As I sorted her clothes before washing them,

outtumbled four toys that go where the sun don't shine wrapped in a bag.

They were huge. Like like huge. So I carefully

wrapped them back up and slid them back into her things. I was slash am a paternal figure

to my orphaned younger siblings and there is something I will never tell my sister. When she

was going through a terrible period as an addict, late teens, she stole my mom's wallet and all of her credit cards slash bank accounts had to be canceled and changed.

Our mom was in bad health, but had a huge life insurance policy she had gotten almost 15 years prior, when she was healthier.

When the accounts were canceled, she forgot to change the automatic payments for the insurance. It was declined and subsequently cancelled.

She couldn't get another policy anymore.

She had too many health problems.

My mom told me about this all in confidence.

Less than two years later, our mom died.

Everyone thought she had a life insurance policy to help us.

But she didn't.

She left absolutely nothing.

I'm the only one who knows why.

It would kill my sister to know that her addiction cost us several hundred thousand dollars.

The recovery from my mom's death was really bad. siblings had to move in with me, etc.

And the insurance money could have saved us a long period of financial and emotional struggle.

My sister is an incredibly kind, loving, and loyal person.

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