I Sacrificed Everything for My Daughter. Then She Broke My Heart with Just Seven Words (3 of 3)

Her face went pale. She tried to stammer an excuse, something about “just joking,” but the truth was already sitting between us like a stone.

We had a long, hard conversation that night. I told her exactly how that moment at the mall felt — like being erased from my own child’s life. She cried. I cried. And maybe, just maybe, she understood.

She hasn’t called me a stranger since.