Where the Heart Is- Mama's Home Pgs. 105-110

            After I had delivered my baby I ended up in the hospital and I was an overnight celebrity.  When I woke up my nurse Lexi told me that there were all of these reporters and news stations outside wanting to ask me questions about what they call “The Wal-Mart” baby.  And from all of this publicity and being on the news and stuff somehow my mother , you know the one that left me when I was seven and I never saw again, ended up in my hospital room.  I was so confused to how she got here and where she has been all these years and how she got here. 

            She told me that she saw me on the news and drove here just to see her.  I asked here where she had been living and she told me that she had been living in New Orleans for the past couple of years.  Then I asked her if she was staying with Fred and she looked at me like I was crazy or something and then she realized who I was talking about.  Then she asked me why I thought about him.  And I looked at her in confusion and told her that he was the reason why she left.  And she had the nerve to say “left what?”  I looked at her and  said “me”.  You left me for him.  I was upset that she really did not even care that she had left me her only daughter for a man named Fred that was an umpire for softball games.    

            But while half of me was mad the other half of me was happy that my mother was actually home.  She started talking to me about how she had some money and how we were going to move into a home together and be like a family.  Then I told her that the owner of Wal-Mart gave me almost six-hundred dollars and that we could put that towards our new life.  I was so excited everything was falling into place, my mother was home and we are going to liv e to together and I have a new healthy baby and things were going great.  So I told my mom to pick me up tomorrow at nine o’ clock in the morning.  And she said okay and walked out of the hospital.  The next morning as time was ticking away, this old horrible feeling grew over me and my mother had once again abandoned me but this time she had also took all of my money.  

Pgs. 105-110