title: Late Conversations With My Late Mother
author:  Sophia Sunshine Vilceus 
description: Sophia Sunshine Vilceus is a Haitian-American from Elmont, New York. She has earned degrees from CUNY City College of New York and Howard University, where she studied Eng-lish/Creative Writing, Ethnic Studies, African Studies, and Media Studies. Sophia is a former Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Montgomery College, and Prince Georges Community College. She currently serves as an English Instructor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Last Pew: Journeying Back to Gods Will After an Affair. Sophia has also been published in Heart &amp; Soul Magazine and continues to freelance for The Praying Woman &amp; Blavity. Follow Sophia Sunshine and her work at: www.sophia-sunshine.com.
zlib_text: A	MOTHER’S	CONFESSION
  A	HEARTBREAKING	STORY	WITH	A	BREATHTAKING
  TWIST
  KELLY	RIMMER
  
  CONTENTS
  Chapter	1
  Chapter	2
  Chapter	3
  Chapter	4
  Chapter	5
  Chapter	6
  Chapter	7
  Chapter	8
  Chapter	9
  Chapter	10
  Chapter	11
  Chapter	12
  Chapter	13
  Chapter	14
  Chapter	15
  Chapter	16
  Chapter	17
  Chapter	18
  Chapter	19
  Chapter	20
  Chapter	21
  Chapter	22
  Chapter	23
  Chapter	24
  Chapter	25
  Chapter	26
  Chapter	27
  Chapter	28
  Chapter	29
  Chapter	30
  
  Chapter	31
  Chapter	32
  Chapter	33
  Chapter	34
  Chapter	35
  Chapter	36
  Chapter	37
  Epilogue
  When	I	Lost	You
  The	Secret	Daughter
  Me	Without	You
  Acknowledgments
  Letter	from	Kelly
  Also	by	Kelly	Rimmer
  
  For	S	and	J	
  When	I	look	around	the	life	I	have	now,	I	see	so	many	blooms	from	the	seeds
  of	kindness	that	you	planted	back	then,	and	I	will	be	forever	grateful.
  
  ONE
  OLIVIA
  Most	of	the	time,	people	try	to	avoid	talking	about	what	happened.	Even	when
  their	 conversational	 acrobatics	 fail	 and	 the	 subject	 arises	 anyway,	 they	 stay
  within	the	very	narrow	subject	of	warning	signs…	speci