DEAR ABBY: I am the mother of a beautiful 2 1/2-year-old girl. She lives with her adoptive parents two hours from where I now live. I know they love her very much and take excellent care of her.
Mother's Day has passed, but during the weeks leading up to it, I was reminded of it on television, in newspapers and in retail stores -- everywhere I turned. Mothers are very important and should be honored by their children and husbands, but I am a mother, too!
I did what I thought was best for my daughter by giving her to parents who could take better care of her than I. I don't begrudge them anything, but I am tired of being forgotten on Mother's Day.
Please, Abby, I know Mother's Day has passed, but would you wish a belated Happy Mother's Day to all birth mothers, especially the ones with no one else to say it? -- BIRTH MOTHER IN BALTIMORE
DEAR BIRTH MOTHER: With pleasure.