Local View: The woman who never stopped showing up: I call her Mama

Local View: The woman who never stopped showing up: I call her Mama

By all accounts, the beginning was anything but easy. When my dad began dating the woman I now proudly call Mama, pain and confusion followed close behind. It wasn’t a simple case of children struggling with change or a stereotypical “evil stepmom” narrative. The situation was far more complicated and far more harmful. My siblings and I were told things no child should hear about another person, especially someone who would go on to play such an…