Forgiving

But finally, when she became a mother herself, her heart softened. “I’ve always loved her, but my love for her deepens year after year,” Melissa spoke about her mother “And not just because the circumstances of her life and mine are now different…I know the truth about how she was forced into that abortion. But I think the older I get, the more I learn how to love people, and to respect them for who they are,” she added.

A Love Story

Melissa told the interviewer that when finally the two of them met, it was “everything I could have ever expected and more.” Melissa’s mother had spent 36 years of her life believing that this daughter of hers’ had died. And all this time she suffered from guilt and grief. She was so disturbed by this incident that never again in her life did she have another child. She was overjoyed to meet Melissa again.