She didn't have to be....

There are very few words that can express the love that I have for this woman. She had no reason to take me in and love me like her own. She had no obligation to rescue me from the horrible life that I was living thanks to her step-daughter. She just simply chose to love and care for me in a way that only a mother could. She once gave me an angel that said "without you I wouldn't be a mother,".....but without her I wouldn't be alive. She may have not physically gave birth to me, but she gave me a life that I wouldn't trade for anything.