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‘I don’t shoot up and throw up anymore, I suit up and show up. I went from a hopeless dope fiend, to a dopeless hope fiend.’
‘I was pregnant, but I wanted to abort it so I could continue using. My cousin ripped me a new one. She told me if I was going to abort my baby, then I needed to at least give it a name. Putting a name to it breathed life into my responsibility for this baby in my belly.”
‘7 weeks ago, they adopted Aubree. 8 days ago, she gave birth to Emsley. Tears filled her eyes. There lay her two girls – both loved more than they will ever know.’
“We said ‘YES! We would love to adopt your little girl.’ Mind you at this time, I am about 24 weeks pregnant with our miracle baby, which we had just found out was also a girl.”
‘Mom, I shouldn’t have worn the green shirt for pictures. It will blend in with the green screen they use.’
“They used a green screen? WHAT?! I probably should have read some fine print. Maybe they will be ok.”
‘At first, I received lots of criticism for my new lifestyle. I sit at 150 pounds from 236. I knew that Intermittent fasting had been the right choice for me.’
“I was bullied from the first day of middle school to the last. I skipped so many days they threatened to hold me back. I eventually met with a counselor to avoid the hallways and stay ‘undetected’ by the tormentors.”
‘Your husband will never father a child. Don’t bother with artificial insemination because he will eventually resent bringing up another man’s child and probably leave you.’
“How we got home in one piece that day is still a mystery. How we drove through the tears, I don’t know.”
‘My son is exclusively breastfed. But he doesn’t get an ounce of breast milk from me. He is exclusively breastfed by another woman.’
“I was expecting a few ounces to get him some breastmilk once or twice a day. She sent me home with 300 ounces of milk!”
‘I am a mother of 3 beautiful children. I recently became an addict. My story isn’t your typical one.’
“I lost my best friend to a heroin overdose. Grief stricken, I wanted to see what was sooooo great about dope that people would risk their lives for it.”
‘Up until this moment I refused to call them ‘mine.’ I referred to them as ‘ours.’ The social workers’, the state of California, the taxpayers. That day, they became MINE.’
“There was no logical reason, in our minds, to start a family. But, as soon as those girls locked eyes on mine I knew… I would kill or die for them.”
I said to the operator, ‘I am miscarrying, alone, I will die as I am losing a lot of blood rapidly. Please hurry.’ This DOES happen, it’s not rare and I am not alone. Secondary infertility is real!
“I have a 10-month-old baby in the house. The front door is unlocked, the dog is behind the gate and I am upstairs, in the last door on the right. Please send help.”
‘My name’s Erik, and I’m an alcoholic. I got sober 5 years and 110 pounds ago.’
“I bought liquor and dog food with my last paycheck. I was about 310 pounds for the second time in my life, freshly laid off, and lacking in a lot of the things I used to use to define myself.”
