She was the most real momlike mom I'd ever imagined.

But she might have been my real mom.

But it was eleven long years since the fire that took my real mom and dad, and half a continent away.

"This is a real mom and pop store," she says.

"But you can't hug me, not like a real mom."

They soon put the pieces together and Faith was returned to her real mom.

He meant a real mom, with my own kids.

But, evidently, the little boy who yearned for a real mom still resided there inside him.

Still, she added, she didn't see them as her real mom and dad.

"I thought about my real mom leaving me," she said.