My mom rescued my entire collection before she passed away and I had no idea
I always regretted not taking my DVDs to college with me. I was a movie dork from a young age and even majored in film my first semester (I still work in media today funnily enough, just not FILM).
Sadly, I came home for a holiday break one year to find out my mom and step dad had separated and they were selling the house.
My mom had carefully packed my collection while I was away but unfortunately, there was a flood about a year later at our new house and (I thought) the collection was destroyed.
I remember how upset she was for me. I was pretty upset too but I did my best to hide it because it was an overall tough time in our lives. I reminded her it was just “stuff” and that it could be replaced and told her it was okay to discard them.
I don’t think I thought of my collection much since that day about 6-7 years ago…
In June, it will have been 6 years since she passed away unexpectedly.
Last weekend, my younger brother and I finally summoned the nerve to go through the storage unit with boxes of our childhood…
One of the first boxes I opened was filled to the brim with MY DVDs.
I couldn’t believe it.
Still in disbelief I opened a second box with even more than the first.
It hit me like a freight train: my mom had gone back and salvaged every single title without me having had any idea.
She passed before she ever got to surprise me with them all again but finding all of these was the closest I’ve felt to her in a very long time.
Watching these in our family’s DVD player has been really something.