“A few days later, at 5:00 a.m., my phone was buzzing. I turned over in bed and saw my mom was calling. At that moment, I knew exactly what it was.”
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“A few days later, at 5:00 a.m., my phone was buzzing. I turned over in bed and saw my mom was calling. At that moment, I knew exactly what it was.”
Work ethic is similar to a muscle. It can be strengthened with proper training, or weakened with misuse.
“Although anxiety is not absent in my life, it is no longer in control.”
“And so, it began, test after test, specialist after specialist.”
“In my memories, she is laughing with me. She says my name. She walks to me. She laughs at her Mother’s Day card.”
“I’ll be honest, I had to sit back and ask myself why. Why would all these people come out to stand in the hot sun and hold signs and cry for a man that they never had dinner with, never had a beer with, never even had a conversation with. Why would they do that?”
“They learn to see what others can’t see in your ‘difficult child.’ They love what other people would find unlovable.”
“I stripped her down to a dry diaper and walked her to the scale. The numbers seemed to take forever to stop scrolling… but when they did, my heart sunk. I gazed down at my sweet Lucy, her skin just sagging off of her.”
“Only 15 minutes after she told me she loved me, she was ejected more than 50 feet from the car that was taking her and her friends to the Senior prom.”
“We had no service to call 911 to let anyone know there was a shooter because our wing is completely almost separate from the rest of the school.”