An Unusual Upbringing leads this woman to discover something incredible about her birth family 45 years later

Step Mother

She recalls that it was probably difficult for her father to look after a girl as young as her alone. She needed a mother. Her father married another woman and O’Brien got a stepmother. And unfortunately, while she thought she would get a mother’s love, her new mom turned out to be the one we only heard in fairytales-the one who never looked after her.