What was the biggest plot twist that happened in your life?

My mom and I haven't really had a relationship for the past five years, for a lot of reasons.

A couple of huge parts of that being my having left the religion that I was raised in,

and her having severe bipolar disorder that made her nearly impossible to deal with,

which she refused to maintain treatment for.

We have only spoken once in the last five years and it was awful. It was

about a year and a half ago. I drove down to California to visit her, 450 miles from me, and tried to

patch things up. It ended up in a huge blowout fight and generally went as poorly as it possibly

could. We never spoke again. One morning in May this year, my dad showed up at my door randomly.

He and my mom had been divorced for many years and said we needed to talk. The apartment building my mom was living in

had been set on fire and she didn't make it out. I still can't believe how hard it hit me.

It changed me, maybe forever. The worst part was about three weeks ago when I was trying to remember

the password to an old PayPal account.

I had to have it reset and it was sent to an old email address that I haven't used in years.

When I logged in, I found an email from her, sent just shortly before she died,

apologizing and trying to reconnect and make amends.

We had been out of contact for so long it was the last email address she had for me.

But since I hadn't been using

it for years, I didn't get her message until months after her death. That is exceedingly tragic,

and I just feel like even if you don't see how to eye, you need to have some method of communication

and keep each other up to date on how to get to each other, at least if there is some kind of

emergency in your lives.

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