Gillian Steele

What an absolute delight! Lacey seems to have forgiven her mother in the end, but my only criticism of Lacey is her feeling betrayed by her mother in the first place. What were her mother's options? 100% integrity followed by struggling not only as a single mother but, let's not forget, a single Jewish mother with a black baby in 1977. Survival reality check.....what do you think most women would do in these circumstances, black, white or brown? The year Lacey was born was around the same year that I discovered that the swimming pool I belonged to not only banned blacks, but Jews as well. We were teenagers and had invited our next door neighbors to go swimming with us. And I remember my sister saying, "Well they don't look Jewish." Growing up white is not the be all and end all, but growing up and being able to experience your entire childhood as 100% belonging to an entire clan of people and having relationships with them your whole childhood is priceless. Even if the mother had been truthful and the marriage survived, there would have always been a much bigger elephant in the room had the truth been known and Lacey would have never known the connection she 'wasn't getting' with her blood father and blood sister. Lacey's mother chose the best childhood for her. She deserves 5 gold stars as well!!.