I can’t call you mommy- Ami serial

↑ chestnut

Sat, Dec 07 2024, 11:59 pm

amother Myrtle wrote:

I don’t feel like this thread is in good taste since it’s talking about real people who had a lot of courage to have their life’s story published.
Recently I heard the author being interviewed and she mentioned that she was a classmate/friend of the main character in the story.
She said that everything is true- completely.
I think that we have to believe that since the story is true and talking about real people we have to accept that certain things are too personal to delve into.
I don’t know any details about this story. I don’t know the people as I’m not from that community.
I did meet the author at a weekend event once and all I can say is that she is the most authentic person out there. She has a way with words so that you can actually ‘feel’ what she writes and she’s careful to protect people’s dignity when it’s a true story. She writes for a few different publications and can be trusted when she says it’s a true story.
Obviously certain things cannot/should not be written so I think we should just enjoy all that is printable.
I’m sure someone from the family was notified about this thread and I would think that the last thing you want to do is to make them regret that they agreed to have their story written up in a publication that so many people read.
Either all your questions will fall into place at the end or you weren’t meant to know.
Since someone on this thread was excited to say that she knows the family so she already let us know that simi didn’t survive (I wish I didn’t know that yet!) I think it’s probably obvious that simis husband must have remarried as he must have been young. He was not a main character in the story. Important, yes, but we don’t have to know everything about him. He obviously had a life before he married simi and afterwards too but the story isn’t focusing on him so it’s okay to let the story continue.
I think those that keep asking about him are really just being nosy.
I’m sure there will be reference to him later on at some point.
It’s really not nice to talk about real people and try to figure everything out.
You don’t have to know what wasn’t written.
I give a lot of credit to the author for doing a good job with her writing as obviously some personal things are very delicate.

Well said, thank you!

amother

↑ OP ↓

Thu, Dec 12 2024, 9:41 am

So sad this weeks’s in installment:
They finally went on vacation. They were so happy and Simi was rushed back to the hospital. While her husband and son flew home. The next day.
Adventure was brought back a day later.

amother

↑ Mustard

Thu, Dec 26 2024, 8:52 pm

I just read this weeks chapter and I'm sitting here crying trying to process it. It's so so raw. My heart is crying for her child, husband, parents..

amother

↑ RosePink ↓

Sun, Dec 29 2024, 1:31 am

So heart wrenching Crying

I really must stop reading it on Shabbos!

amother

↑ Bone

Tue, Dec 31 2024, 8:05 pm

amother RosePink wrote:

So heart wrenching Crying

I really must stop reading it on Shabbos!

I was thinking the same. Though I knew to expect that this week she will announce that unfortunately Simi passed away (as I read the details here beforehand), it was so sad to actually read it on Shabbos.

amother

↑ Steelblue

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 8:04 pm

When was this ?
How many years ago did this take place?

Bump

amother

Pink

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 9:10 pm

Were is her father in all this? Dont remember where he moved to after the third divorce. This serial is so raw and captivating

amother

Zinnia ↓

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 9:17 pm

There's so so little mention of simis husband

I do understand that it's from the mothers perspective but so curious, yanky landed by a relative/friend... Why wasn't he the one to share the details of the death with yanky

The story really ruins my shabbos. Im in awe of the story and the incredible family and admire chanys faith at the same time I wish I wouldn't have to unwind reading about a family's tragic life that only gets crazier with each chapter

I assume the craziness didn't end after simis death I feel like it's lashon hora on hashem that a family has been hit so hard continuously

Hope I make sense...

I'm a HSP and this has been on my heart

amother

Seashell

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 9:48 pm

amother Zinnia wrote:

I assume he had a disability too.

amother

Kiwi ↓

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 9:53 pm

amother Zinnia wrote:

What's an HSP?

This story is just terrible 😞

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 10:23 pm

amother Kiwi wrote:

What's an HSP?

This story is just terrible 😞

Highly sensitive person.
(I’m one too)

amother

Hydrangea

Sat, Jan 04 2025, 10:51 pm

I don’t read it on shabbos, I cry every time I read it.

schoolbus

Yesterday at 1:06 am

amother Steelblue wrote:

When was this ?
How many years ago did this take place?

Bump

If I remember correctly simi passed away approximately 10 years ago

amother

↑ Blush

Yesterday at 1:13 am

Yes it will be 11 years this year….. I remember we had a Shabbaton that shabbos and Simi’s sister was picked up on Thursday night….. we/all her friends and classmates were crying and it kinda ruined the mood for the Shabbaton.

amother

↑ Kiwi ↓

Yesterday at 2:28 am

amother Blush wrote:

So sad. So her son would be 15 now? Who brought him up? He's one of my son's age.
Poor boy.

amother

↑ Peony ↓

Yesterday at 2:30 am

amother Kiwi wrote:

So sad. So her son would be 15 now? Who brought him up? He's one of my son's age.
Poor boy.

Simi asked he mother before she was niftar to raise him. His name is not yanky though, it's a pen name.

amother

↑ Kiwi

Yesterday at 2:43 am

amother Peony wrote:

Simi asked he mother before she was niftar to raise him. His name is not yanky though, it's a pen name.

Oh yes I remember that now. I wonder about his father too. Hopefully it'll say in the story. Did he remarry? What his involvement as a father to 'yanky' was etc.

amother

↑ RosePink

Yesterday at 2:50 am

amother Zinnia wrote:

Every week I think that next week I won't read this on Shabbos. Fact is it's the only time I read... But I feel guilty. It's so tragic and so not appropriate for Shabbos read. What a heartbreaking story.

amother

Periwinkle ↓

Yesterday at 7:39 am

Such a real, sad, story. I recently started buying the Ami, so don't know the beginning. Does anyone mind sharing the story in a nutshell?

tweety1

Yesterday at 7:55 am

amother RosePink wrote:

It's the only part I read on Thursday the minute the ami arrives.