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Welcome to our slash entitled Parents, where an entitled mother abandons her child.

So my stepmom is British. Welsh to be exact. For those who don't know,

Wales is the little hump west of England, north of Cornwall. It's a beautiful place known for sheep,

alcohol, and mistakes involving sheep and alcohol. My stepmom is ethnically Welsh, but raised in

England. Despite this, my name and taste, Welsh for grandma and grandpa, insisted on her and her

brother learning Welsh to preserve their heritage. The Welsh are a proud people, and so they wanted to

ensure their children were as immersed as they could be. So she grew up bilingual, went to university,

got a job working for a certain tech giant, and moved to the US to help train their staff.

A few years later, she met my dad and joined the family. At the time, I was still getting over my

mom, so her presence was less than welcome. Despite this, my stepmom never pushed me or tried to

buy her way in. She gave me the room I needed to grieve, and when I was ready, showered me with

enough affection to make up for the lost time. She has my eternal love and respect for it,

and has become my second mother. Now, we live in a large town in the Midwest. Being

west of the seaboard in east of the Mississippi, so while most people are opened outsiders,

there's the usual few who just want to row in everything. Around Christmas time, I was visiting

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