Words cannot express how much hearing all of your comments meant to me. Thank you all so much for sharing your stories and giving me words of comfort to help me through mine.

I'm trying to gather up the courage to give my aunt a real hug. She's hugged me before, but it wasn't really a hug... she's not a really touchy feely person I guess you could say. But I suppose its worth a shot, she certainly has the capacity of showing love for her children anyhow.

Thank you all again, and huge hugs to everyone here (((((((((everyone)))))))))
Hopefully I'll have a more positive update later on tonight.