“She was 5'11”," Kelly shared.
“Legs up to her ears, gorgeous.
She got along on that for as long as she could.
“That was like our big Friday,” Kelly recalled.
“She would want me to skip school [the next morning] …
I was like ‘No, Mom, I’ve gotta go to school!'”
“I didn’t know how to appreciate what good friends we were,” Kelly said.
“Because I just wanted her to be my mom.
“Talk about being reckless and not paying attention to your body,” Kelly stated.
Despite their challenging times, Kelly was on good terms with her mom when she died.
“By the time [my mom] passed I was holding her,” Kelly recalled.
“I was with her until her last breath.
We made it.”
