Review: At What Price
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 4, 2013
You become a mother and your child is loved, taught, and you try hard to give them a good foundation for the life they will have someday.  Sometimes, however, children chose their own path and it takes them away from you and all the things you taught them.  They become addicted to drugs,  a life style that you never wanted them to have.  One woman had a daughter like that even though she had been loved and raised with good teachings somehow she chose a different life and then she had a little girl.  Mrs. Gardner is such a woman with such a daughter.  One July day she gets a phone call that her grand daughter has been abandoned and her life changes forever.  She arranges for the child to come to her and the days of Rio begin.Loving her grand child she begins raising her. Over the years Rio's mother shows at varied times for money with threats that she will take the child if not paid.  Through out it all the heartbreak of losing her daughter to the joy of seeing Rio grow up Mrs. Gardner fears that time when her daughter will have to be confronted.Sometimes it is within the confrontation that truth has out.  I have known several that have gone through what is expressed in the story about Rio and her grandmother.  It vividly describes the anguish that grandparents feel when trying to salvage what they can from the ruined lives of their children, their grandchildren.  We give our hearts, parts of our own lives but in reality we realize that our children chose their own paths and even as we see them destroy their lives we reach out to save what we can our grand children.  This story will tear at your heart and it will enlighten you on the love a grandmother can have and how that love can change a life.  This story is wonderfully written and with feeling.  When you have read it you will understand " At what price do you say enough is enough?"At What Price?