How would you feel? (the update)

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I don't know if anyone will remember this, but I wrote a discussion a couple of years ago about how I was no longer going to contact my mother anymore, due to all the craziness and accusations that my stepfather had been making against me. Although I've written a lot about it on Bubblews since then, I figured that I would try to bring things up to speed on here... From February 2013 on, I had kept my word and did not bother to try to contact my mom. Then one day, back in July of last year, an APS (adult protective services) worker came to my home. He was trying to find someone that was related to my mom. He wouldn't give out very much information. However, he said that my mom was okay and that she was in a care home. He also let me know that my mom has dementia. A few days later, I found out there was a lot more to the story than that. Apparently my stepfather had boarded up their mobile home and set the thermostat to 120 degrees Fahrenheit...while my mother was inside! Yikes! Fortunately a neighbor heard noises coming from inside the mobile home and called the authorities. They were able to get her out alive! My mom was taken to the hospital. From there the hospital put her in a care home. All this took place about a month or two before APS came and spoke to me. About 10 days after APS had visited, I was finally able to see my mom and we were reunited. And this is how I got back into my mother's life. However, this was not the end... As for my stepfather, he had been put into a psych facility after boarding and heating up the mobile home, but was later released. I later found out that this was not the first time that he had been admitted! He had been in and out of psych facilities for who knows how long! Because he was still in my mom's life, yet obviously not sane, I'd only visited her periodically, in order to play it safe. Some time after my stepfather passed away, I found out that he had tried to get a restraining order against me, after all (@Dragon54u saw that one coming and had warned me about it on my previous discussion). However, nothing ever became of it, thankfully. It's a crying shame that both of them had lost their memory. If only things could have been different. None of this mess would have ever happened. Here's my previous discussion about it: