I know a lot of people who talk about how difficult it is growing up and feeling like something is always missing. A lot of my friends grew up in broken homes just like I did. We are all missing a parent in some area of our life… Even if our parental units are technically alive and present. For instance, plenty of us complain about having absentee fathers who never really gave us the emotional support that we wanted. In my case, I have always been missing my mother. Honestly, I haven’t been that broken up about it because she left my family when I was 10 years old. I never thought about reuniting with my mom or worried about where she wound up. However, I found out a few weeks ago by accident. I was at the heating and cooling repair shop like usual when a normal HVAC maintenance appointment was called in to the front desk. I agreed to take on the air-conditioning inspection and quickly drove over to the residential HVAC repair appointment. When I arrived in the driveway I was more than ready to get the air conditioning repair over with. I wanted to go home for the evening and I didn’t need any complications with the cooling system to deter me. Unfortunately, I never could have anticipated that I would come face-to-face with my mom when I knocked on the door to learn about the air conditioning system. It turns out, my missing mother has been living in the same town all along… And she has been suffering from low indoor air quality thanks to her ancient HVAC system. I guess she could have avoided this air quality conundrum if she had kept her children in her life.