I Went on a Trip with My Mom and Ended up in the Hospital, Where I Discovered a Terrible Truth That Had Been Hidden from Me My Whole Life — Story of the Day

I took a trip with my mom to relive old memories and reconnect after years apart. But a fall left me in the hospital—where I overheard her admit I wasn’t her biological daughter.

She confessed my birth mother had abandoned me and that she’d raised me as her own. Before I could come to terms with it, my heart failed again.

When I woke after surgery, Mom was gone. Dad told me she’d given me her heart. In her letter, she wrote: “You were always my daughter. Every heartbeat you feel is my love.”

She may not have given me life at birth, but she gave it back to me.