Graduation required family members to join you on stage.

My fake mom, Maria, stood proudly on stage, speaking confidently.Meanwhile, my biological mother glared at me from the audience, seething with anger!

Maria Hutchinson had been a woman I paid to be my fake mom. When I met her, she was standing alone on the street, smoking a cigarette.

On a whim, I approached her and asked if she would pretend to be my mom and go to school with me.

Seven years had passed since then, and she had been my mother all that time.

Suddenly, Charlotte fainted in the audience.The scene turned chaotic.My mother stormed up to the stage,...