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The author and her dad, Jeff.
I was away for my freshman year of college when I learned that my mother had shot herself three times at a gas station parking lot 1,000 miles from home. She was high and on the phone with my grandmother, trying to make her feel guilty.
My mother went on to live, only to hang and kill herself while in rehab a few years later. I was 24 years old at the time and the one who had to decide whether or not to take her off of life support.
My father and I use that term loosely is alive, somewhere, today. But the real man I called “dad” died a few years ago of pancreatic cancer. And try as he did, I never truly had a house that felt like a home growing up. It was only until after his passing that I realized, my brokenness is what fuels my passion for building homes. I am a woman in construction, and I design, build and furnish homes that give people a place to feel comfort and safety, because I never had it myself.