Today I was at the library computers, right here at PC, when a woman called out for help with her online FAFSA application...I screamed, I love to help people! I will! I will!

We got to talking and went out for coffee when the library closed, and I felt comfortable telling her much of my life story, she was very non-judgemental, I could tell.

At the end of the evening, I found myself asking if she would be a mother figure, to me. My own mother is so cold and heartless and she is all I have.

Unfortuneately, the woman she turned down my offer to stay in touch and be like a mother to me. That is what I expected. For one second I did enjoy showing my vulnerability and opening up to someone, and I truly felt heard and understood on a deep level, a human, spontaneous moment..

She took my hand and said although my family may be cold and distant, that keep in mind, your biological family is all you actually genuinely have.............