Lukasik’s Interest Regarding Her Mother’s Heritage

Over the years, it became harder and harder for her Lukasik to deal with her mother’s secrets and habits. As she left high school and entered college, she realized how much Rita’s choices had affected. While all her friends enjoyed loving relationships with their grandparents, Rita would not even answer the most basic questions about them.

Even worse, as an adult, Lukasik would embarrassingly need to say, “I don’t know” when a doctor asked about family history. Rita even refused to tell her husband, Harold, about her family, so Lukasik could not even turn to her father for help! Soon enough, Lukasik decided to go snooping behind her mother’s back…