Hi Momma,
It's now 2024 and I have to say I've never been more happy to say Good Riddance to 2023. Haven't had such a horrible year since 2017. Alot happened in 2023, some good and some bad and one devastating. As you know Berneda lost Kevin this year, which is also a terrible loss for me. He was like a son to me, I know you remember me mentioning Kevin to you often. At the time of his passing, he and I weren't on the best of terms. I had no idea how sick he really was and I wasted to much time to make things right with him, I thought I had time but my time ran out and now I have to live with the fact that he passed without me being able to tell him I love him and I'm sorry for all the bullshit. I am heartbroken that I'll never be able to fix it.
And of course you know about what your son put me through. I'll never understand why he turned on me so drastically, telling me he wished I was dead and that you should have aborted me and I'm the one that put you in your grave and much much more, not to mention the physical beating he put on me, all because of air conditioning. I know you probably don't agree with how I feel about him, I can hear you saying to me "he should have never put his hands on you but remember he is your brother, he's family" Well, Mom, family or not, what he did to me was pure hate, he's proud of what he did, says I deserved it, he feels like a bad ass cause he beat up a woman, his own sister. Men who beat on women, are nothing but low life cowards and Men who beat up their own sister is the lowest you can go. He's a bottom feeder, piece of shit, sorry excuse for a human and as far as I'm concerned he is dead! 100% dead to me! Unfortunately, he's still family by name, that's it and I wish we didn't have the same last name. He is so cold, he has no feelings, he only cares about himself, he's a bully, a narcissist and miserable inside his cold soul. He doesn't know how to love anyone but himself. Karma will give him what he deserves one day!
And of course last but not least, the end of my and Jan's friendship. She somehow has herself believing this is my decision. Like I told you before, our friendship used to be good, we hung out, went out to eat, we would go together to visit you on special days, we used to go to like arts and crafts things, pumpkin festival etc.... and I would go down to the house, we would hang out for awhile, talk, laugh and reminisce about you and all the fun we had in the past. Then gradually everything stopped. She did explain the reason we didn't go out to eat anymore was because of the financial help she provided for me the last 6 years. I will always appreciate and remember all of her help. So after everything basically stopped I asked her to find a little time for us to get together and hang out, catch up etc...., I even said, even if it's just an hour. I asked a couple of times but she didn't have time for me anymore. See, Jan decided to spend her time with them and also reconnected with her ex Wendy, so now she's back in the picture, she's spending time with her so she pretty much pushed me out of her life so she could, her words exactly, she had to "Nurture" her friendships (just not ours) and basically didn't want any friendship with me anymore. Apparently I'm negative, have no clue when I was negative, and she wants to surround herself with, positive and upbeat people. She told me even before you passed that we would always be family, I was always welcome in her house, she would always be there, as I would for her because that's what family is, but all that was lies. She wants no part of your family anymore. She says you were her world, she loved you more than anything bla bla bla and now she has abandoned me, the daughter of the person she supposedly loves, and our friendship to "Nurture, Sandy, Rich and Wendy" and whoever else there may be. As of a year or more our so called friendship/family consisted of a message, mostly her schedule with a brief message every now and then. After what Perry did, she was no support, none! I guess she was busy "Nurturing" so, after careful consideration I really had no choice but to accept that she doesn't want me in her life, I messaged her, told her how I felt and that I accept that she doesn't want to spend any time with me and I would just move on with my life and she can continue to "Nurture" her important friendships and she wouldn't have to deal with me anymore. There is no care or love there anymore. I'm sorry I told her that your feelings changed after she stabbed your daughter in the back when we worked together at Lid's but she keeps throwing up in my face that I didn't know how yours and her relationship was....... She should know by now how close Mother and Daughter were and Mom and daughter talked alot, about different things, including her, so in all reality, I do know how and what the relationship was. I don't want or need someone like her in my life. I shouldn't have to basically beg for an hour of her time, I shouldn't have to wonder why she barely talks to me, I shouldn't have to do any of that if we were truly friends/family. She's chosen those 3 to be her Friends/ family, but not your daughter anymore. You taught me not to stay in someone's life if they show you they don't want you there and loosing people in your life isn't the end. Just move on with my life and not dwell on wondering why, wondering what I did to deserve it. It doesn't matter, that chapter of my life is over and so are most of the people that were in it. I'm ok accepting her decision, there hasn't been much of a friendship between us for awhile now. Lol, nothing changes. So what do you think about Berneda and I have reconnected and are living together, everything is going great, we get along just like we did before. I know your happy about it, me too. Well, I'm gonna go for now but I'll be back soon.
I love and miss you so so much Mom. Until next time!
Love,
Your Daughter