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A Surprise Connection July 2016, a month that changed my life for the better. It was the day I met my soon to be step-mom who actually is my "step aunt". I was in Ethiopia for one of my other uncles weddings and when I got to my grandfather's house my legal guardian who also is one of my uncles had a nice surprise for the family as he had brought along his new girlfriend that no one had even seen before. There she was just standing there, me and her had cross paths before but we had never spoken to each other before, she seemed a shy and kind women as she was quite reserved and seemed nervous to be meeting so many new people. While at this time we were just total strangers by the end of my stay in Ethiopia my new "step aunt" would become probably the most important person in my life. Let's start of by giving a a little background on my aunt, she was born and raised back home in Ethiopia and moved to Philadelphia when she was about 7 years old. She lived there with her parents and two older brothers in a suburban area. She lived their her whole life until she moved down here with us and her parents still live there to this day. I later found out this was the reason I had never seen her before as she had been dating my uncle for a year before we met in Ethiopia but since she lived in Philly, they had a long distance relationship that I never knew about.While she is only a few years younger (34) than my uncle (38) she is a very young soul and she relates to me with many things, which is partly why our relationship would grow so strong over the coming years. So, after my other uncles wedding she came back to my house here In Maryland which would now be her new home. One thing that should definitely be made clear is that I do not come from a "normal" house per say, I am adopted by aforementioned uncle and we live with his mother (my grandma) in a little two level house. Growing up as the only child in the house made me very isolated as I had nobody to talk to or nobody to interact with in general. When I would come home from school I would go straight to my room and not talk to anyone for hours, sometimes I woudn't even talk until the next day when I was at school. My uncle worked all day and whenever he was home all we did was argue. My grandma has trouble speaking English and my Amharic (Ethiopia's native language) isn't very good which meant it was hard for me to communicate with her also. All of this changed however once my new "step-aunt" arrived, as she quickly would change my household completely. Before she came my grandma did most of the cooking and cleaning but of course she was getting old now and couldn't do things that she used to be able to, because of this the condition of our house had deteriorated somewhat. Not only did my aunt quickly have the house looking better she would also help my grandma with cooking and since she was a lot younger she could make dishes that appealed more to me. This was key because there had been times before she came where I went weeks without a home cooked meal as I would just eat takeout or easy to make processed food. While her cooking and cleaning defiantly help it wasn't even the most important change that she brought to the house and more specifically to my life. The important thing was that she became someone I could go to no matter what, whether it was a life or death choice, or I just needed someone to talk to o n a random Wednesday night, she was always there for me. I don't even think she realizes how much I cherish these moments as I went years feeling isolated and lonely, but now with her here I feel much more