Mother Dearest

In this chapter, Dr Langley writes in detail about her mother’s final years of estrangement and how she made one final attempt to manipulate and bully Dr Langley in her deathbed, dying of a rare form of cancer. After over 15 years of estrangement, Dr Langley received messages from her mother’s friends and surgeon, informing her of her mother’s terminal illness and desire to see her daughter and grandchildren before she passed on. Suspicious at first, Dr Langley conducted her own investigations and, with the assistance of her godmother, eventually discovered her mother’s false cry of a family reunion was nothing more than yet another conniving ploy to undermine, take advantage of and manipulate her only daughter. However, after a series of carefully planned events, Dr Langley discovered that her mother had lied to both her and everyone else who had contacted her, proving that she had never changed and was not worthy of forgiveness. In a final act of evil, after her death, Dr Langley’s mother left her one last “gift” via her last Will. However, determined not to let her mother’s darkness and toxicity overpower and control her, Dr Langley turned her mother’s evil “gift” into an act of kindness, love and philanthropy.