“The single mom teacher has to decide if she leaves her kid an orphan, or opens the door for her other kid screaming for help.”
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“The single mom teacher has to decide if she leaves her kid an orphan, or opens the door for her other kid screaming for help.”
The small town of Trumann, Arkansas, is calling him their hometown hero.
“Suddenly, I realize I’m loving you to leave.”
If they could tell you how to help them, this is what they would say.
“They told me to wait 7 days before taking a pregnancy test, but I couldn’t wait and took one every day. On the 5th day, I saw the faintest line. I started freaking out, asking my parents and sister to look at the test to see if I was dreaming. I wasn’t.”
“Reach out to your grieving friends. They need you now more than ever.”
They have nothing to do with reading or writing.
“I forwarded his profile to my husband. Maybe he’d give a firm ‘no’ and we could move on with our lives. But that night at dinner, he DIDN’T give a firm no. In fact, neither of us could come up with a reason why we SHOULDN’T. We didn’t have any medical records. We were scared. But I couldn’t get this little boy off my mind.”
“You know the new mom at work? (Insert eye roll.) The one that is leaving early because day care has called… again. The mom that only talks about her kids in the lunch room. That mom who is forever taking days off. And the one that has a shorter working week and gets an extra day off? Don’t judge.”
“Dana was different than all the other girls. She had that classic All-American, girl next door quality. I was in awe. We became serious ‘girlfriend-boyfriend’ immediately. Monday night, we stood out in front of her house to say goodnight. We hugged, kissed and talked for 30 minutes. I smiled, kissed her again and said, ‘I love you.’ That’s the last time I saw Dana.”