“My fiancé sat in the fetal position, berating himself. With 3 children, I filed for divorce. It meant food stamps. We all shared the same bed. I decided to do the craziest thing – leave a stable job to fly for the airlines. Single moms don’t do that, right? As I shut down the engine, I could hear my kids yelling, ‘Mommy!’ I was NOT broken.”
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‘When you’ve been around your family for your whole lives and then spend your first holiday without them, it’s a shock.’
“Our families aren’t millionaires and it’s unfortunate how expensive it is to fly during Thanksgiving and Christmas. We won’t have grandparents and cousins rushing through the door to greet us. I want it to feel special, despite the lack of loved ones.”
‘I was crying my eyes out, rocking back and forth, my body shook in terror’: Autistic man shares incredible experience with airline
“I was still shaking and crying, but this time I was crying tears of thankfulness.”
