Betty

By: Mary McSwain Steele

The true story of a single mother’s courage in life and death. A stunning deathbed confession and final request leave her daughter facing new challenges. Rising above her grief and loss to fulfill her mother’s last wish, she finds strength, surprising joy, and finally, peace.

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The true story of a single mother’s courage in life and death. A stunning deathbed confession and final request leave her daughter facing new challenges. Rising above her grief and loss to fulfill her mother’s last wish, she finds strength, surprising joy, and finally, peace.
A daughter tells the true story of her single mother in 1950s rural Wisconsin, struggling to secure a future for her children without losing herself. At age 50, her children grown, Betty breaks the confines of the Midwest by securing a nursing position in Saudi Arabia, finding adventure and romance. After traveling the world, Betty moves back to the Midwest to be near her family. Her happy, active retirement is interrupted by her son’s AIDS death and her own terminal cancer diagnosis. Betty’s daughters lovingly care for her during the 32 days she has left with them. Final peace comes as Betty unburdens herself, stunning her daughters with a secret she has kept for 60 years.

Betty tells of an imperfect but remarkable woman unable to avoid life’s messiness but stoically wading through it. It’s the story of a daughter’s overwhelming grief and how she found healing through writing. Ultimately, it is the inspirational story of an unconventional love that binds an unconventional family together and expresses itself in forgiveness, grief, shared revelation, and surprising joy.

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