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A woman said her family ignored her first birthday since her mom’s death

She left the family group chat after feeling their silence was intentional

Unsure if she overreacted, she turned to Reddit for answers and support

A woman turned to the Reddit community for support following a painful birthday that her family overlooked. The 28-year-old shared in her post that this was her first birthday without her mother, who passed away last year from brain cancer.

“It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever gone through,” she wrote. Before her mother died, she said her mom asked her dad’s sisters to look after her and her brother.

In the year since the loss, she explained that she and her family have been moving through a fog of grief. “My mom’s birthday is in early September, and

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