{"id":488,"date":"2026-07-16T19:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:11:09","slug":"i-abandoned-my-daughter-she-came-back-when-we-needed-her-most-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"I abandoned my daughter\u2026 She came back when we needed her most 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI treated you so badly,\u201d I mumbled. \u201cYesterday, I\u2014\u201d \u201cYou were scared,\u201d she said softly. \u201cYou were sixteen. And yesterday\u2026 you were still scared.\u201d There was no bitterness in her voice. Just understanding. She had grown into a woman with a strength I didn\u2019t have at her age. A heart big enough to hold compassion for the mother who had abandoned her. The transplant was done two weeks later. She asked for nothing in return. No apology. No recognition. No place in our family.\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-2\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"div-gpt-ad-1778614977351-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=489\">PART2<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI treated you so badly,\u201d I mumbled. \u201cYesterday, I\u2014\u201d \u201cYou were scared,\u201d she said softly. \u201cYou were sixteen. And yesterday\u2026&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}