{"id":103,"date":"2026-07-13T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2026-07-13T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:19:10","slug":"my-daughter-walked-away-right-after-the-triplets-were-born-p3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"My Daughter Walked Away Right After the Triplets Were Born  P3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But we were together.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Then the gifts started.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>A pearl necklace for Rose.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>A designer coat for May.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>A car payment for June.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No name.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No return address.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cGirls, don\u2019t tell me each of you suddenly has a rich fianc\u00e9,\u201d I joked one day.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Then one of my granddaughters looked at me and said,<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cThey\u2019re gifts from Mom. We\u2019ve been talking to her for a while. You just didn\u2019t know.\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>For a moment, it felt like the floor disappeared beneath my feet.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Lisa had come back into their lives\u2026<br class=\"html-br\" \/>But she had not even tried to contact me.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I invited her to Sunday dinner, hoping maybe time had softened her heart.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>She showed up two hours late.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cI want to reconnect,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople are asking why my daughters aren\u2019t in my life. It looks\u2026 strange.\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>My fork froze halfway to my mouth.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cSo this is about your reputation?\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Lisa shrugged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=104\">NIXT&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But we were together.Then the gifts started.A pearl necklace for Rose.A designer coat for May.A car payment for June.No name.No&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}