More regrets. If my Mom and Dad had been sensitive enough, my sister, Julie, could have over come this. But Mom and Dad did not understand how badly Julie had been traumatized by this experience. They did not show her special attention, love and understanding to help her feel like her family loved her.

Julie did not know my Aunt and Uncle before we left her at their house. Julie, at the age of two and one-half, only saw her family abandoning her. Leaving her. We never got her to feel loved again. I had my own serious mental health problems at that time. I did not know how to help her. I grieve over my own failure to show her the love that she needed to heal from this trauma.