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Charleah Torres-Vega, a mother of four, was 18 when her own mother passed away from cancer. Her mother, described as “a happy, confident woman who was always heavyset,” left behind Torres-Vega’s siblings, who were between 7 and 12 years old at the time. “Her death really woke me up, because she had young babies,” Torres-Vega,…

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