Girl Comes Home from Big City and Realizes that Her Granny Disappeared without a Trace — Story of the Day
A young woman comes to visit her beloved grandmother and finds her gone. Then she discovers the terrible truth and decides to make things right.
When Bonnie Radcliff’s mother was sixteen, she fell pregnant. Luckily for Ellen Radcliff, her mother was an understanding and supportive woman, and she welcomed her grandchild with joy.
Mrs. Radcliff took on the care of the tiny Bonnie so her daughter could finish high school, go to prom, and have a normal life for a teenager. But instead of being grateful to her mother, Ellen was arrogant and cared nothing for her daughter.
Bonnie came home to find the house empty and silent | Source: Shutterstock.com
Mrs. Radcliff watched sadly as her daughter became a party girl, who cared only for luxury and fashion, nothing for her mother, and even less for her infant daughter.
At the age of 49, Mrs.Radcliff became Bonnie’s mother in all but name. It was Mrs. Radcliff who took Bonnie to the park, arranged play dates, bought her a puppy, and took her to her first day of school — and every other day too.
It was Mrs. Radcliff who went to the school plays and Bonnie’s piano recitals, and listened with pride as her grandaughter’s teachers told her how exceptional Bonnie was — a math genius, they said.
And so, since her mother was a distant figure who walked in and out of her life in tall spiked heels with the man who was in her life for the moment, it was Mrs. Radcliff and not Ellen who occupied the ‘mom’ shaped space in Bonnie’s heart.
Ellen was a rebellious teen, and it was her mother who brought up Bonnie | Source: Pexels
Those were wonderful years for Mrs.Radcliff and Bonnie, who grew into a beautiful girl with a loving, generous heart, but soon Bonnie was in her senior year at high school, and they knew that they would soon have to part.
Bonnie was offered a full scholarship at a very prestigious Ivy League school and went off to study with her grandmother’s proud but tearful blessing. Bonnie was so brilliant that by the time she left she already had her pick of job offers.
She accepted a position in a New York company, with a fabulous starting salary. Unfortunately, the job was also far from her home in Houston, Texas, and her beloved grandmother.