Being raised in a household without a mother or a father can be traumatic for a young girl. If no one cares enough about you to come into your life to “finish” or offer guidance where your parent(s) left off, you are a lost soul.As I mentioned in my story Zenobia’s Life Lessons, my mother passed away when I was a young girl of twelve and unfortunately, I never knew my dad. My mother knew that her illness was terminal therefore, given the time that she had left, she would explain everything the.