On a day filled with “Thanks, Mom!” social media posts, engineered more for the brand than the mother, comes a story equal parts heartbreaking and life-affirming.
Randy Foye has not seen his mother since 1989, presumed dead since disappearing after his kindergarten graduation. Foye’s father had been killed when he was 2 in a motorcycle accident, and the Newark native was raised by his grandmother.
He would ask where his mom, Regina Diane Foye, went, and no one could answer him, with some family members offering excuses like, “She’s on vacation.”
“I am thinking to myself now, like how could she?