My real mom

I am not sure how to write this next blog but I feel like I need to. I was born to biological mother Veda Raven Miles. She was born in Oklahoma . Her mother was named Lura Morrill and her father name is Leon Raven.
My mother was a different child is from what I was told. I am not sure of her personal history because I didn't get to know her much because I didn't growing up with her. My mother told me once she valued her relationship with her mother and her family. She looks a lot like me is what I have been told.
I never got to know her family growing up...her brothers or cousins. In the past years, I have got in connecting with her brother Errol and cousins. It has been a real thrill to get to know this long lost family I haven't really known. I don't know many stories about my mom except for the ones I was apart of which weren't the best part of my life. My mom had a mental illness called Paranoid Schizophrenic. Back then and even to this day mental illness brought shame to family. I think it was a trail for my mom and her family..including me. Its not a shameful things to have mental illness. I know she was loved by her family and mother. She died in 2008 after she had broken a hip. I look forward to the day I can meet her and really get to know my mother.