Oh ****, Dory, me too!
I couldn't have cared LESS about finances, "opportunities," stuff....
Thing is, financially, my mother wasn't bad off. She was employed as a nurse when she had me. Granted, I guess she would have been fired for being a single mom so who knows what would have happened. But she eventually became an RN and works in the cardiac care department taking care of patients who have open heart surgery. So it's not like she ever lived in that shack I envisioned - she has a nice house in a nice area and she never upgraded - she's been there for over 30 years. And heck, she lives 30 miles from the beach where we used to go on our one week family vacations once a year - I could have been vacationing every bloody weekend!!!!
But yeh, I couldn't have cared less about any of that - I just wanted my mother.
