Hello, I'm Elaine from Virginia, and this is my story.

I lived with my grandma for as long as I can remember. She's always been there. My mom took me there when I was just a child and said she would come back, but she never did.

I have just one tiny memory of my mom, a time where she gave me a caramel bar because I cried so much that day.

That day she took me to the amusement park, but it turned out she couldn't even afford to let me enter any of the rides.

It made me really sad and I made a scene. All she could...