“I have asked for her to be moved to a different class, yet they have no sign of showing any concerns – like it’s us parents being overly protective!”
By LJ Herman -
‘Tell me this is how an 11-year-old girl should feel coming home from school. Bullying is not acceptable!’ Dad’s plea shows daughter’s panic attack after Snapchat bullying from girls at school
By LJ Herman -
‘We’d finally decided to tie the knot. One year and 6 days later, he was dead. There were no warning signs, just a phone call telling me my husband – who I’d spoken to only hours ago – had died.’
“There was no accident, no cancer diagnosis, nothing amiss beyond what the doctors said was the flu.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I remember hearing my name. I was caught off guard because it was one the coolest boys in my grade. They came up to me and gave me a hug. The last one handed me a paper bag and said, ‘Man, you smell awful.’’
“When I looked in the paper bag my heart dropped when I saw coupons for soap and shampoo.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I thought moving mom and dad to an assisted living home would give us a moment to breathe. If I said I was suffocating, that would not be far from an exaggeration.’
“My dad stares off into the distance as he tries to figure out how it all came to this. Why is the woman he loves here, but gone?”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘They couldn’t seem to find a cause for her fatal sickness. No one could explain how this happened to our family – again.’
“We found out this was a spontaneous condition. Just 4 months in, our world came crashing down all over again.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I got a message about a 19-year-old bride who has cancer. She was told she wouldn’t make it through the night. They had to move her wedding to that very day.’
“Little did I know this one day, this one wedding, and this one bride, would change my life forever.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘How could a perfectly healthy baby just stop breathing? How could I lose my baby like that? Why would this happen to me?’
“I turned to check on him and I couldn’t see him breathing, so I placed my hand on his cheek. It was ice cold. I realized instantly he was gone.”
By Eliza Murphy -
The dementia is taking her away. He leans in to kiss her. Ever so quietly I hear her say, ‘I love you,’ before staring into a place only she can see.
“‘Is she OK? Who is watching her?’ Who could possibly love her like he does, to know what being apart is doing to his heart? He doesn’t understand why no one will listen. Why no one realizes how much she needs him, and more importantly, how much he needs her.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Both my dad and brother were murdered.’ ‘I was adopted and never want to go back.’ Teacher’s eye-opening school project gets vulnerable responses from students
“These incredible stories, 95 of them – hard ones and easy ones, painful ones and hopeful ones – are the stories they are just beginning to write on their own.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Let’s address the pornography issue. To those who think I ‘jumped ship,’ you’re right – I did. Because we were not yet married, it was not my job to ‘fix him.’’
“We already had over 300 wedding invitations sent out. We had to call every single one of those people and tell them what happened to inform them the wedding was off. Pornography addiction does not just affect you. It affects the people around you.”
By Eliza Murphy -
