“I don’t remember the rest of the words he spoke, I just remember the look on his face. Just like our wedding day.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I slept next to my husband for 4 nights harboring the biggest secret I have ever kept in my life. My heart was racing.’
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I remember waking to my cellphone vibrating under my pillow. Completely unaware of how quickly one phone call was about to unravel my life. With my eyes still closed, ‘Hello?’ I answered.’
“That phone call? It was his voice on the other line. We never saw him again.”
By LJ Herman -
‘He had been diagnosed with cancer and wouldn’t make it to her wedding. She immediately made a decision to fly down there – wedding dress in tow – for his first chemo session.’
“I got the text, ‘My dad passed away this evening. I will treasure these forever.’ I couldn’t move. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING compared to the way her dad looked at her in that dress.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘On my way to work the sidewalks were blocked by Bird electric scooters in not one, but THREE, places’: Wheelchair user receives ‘astounding’ response to social media plea
“On my way to work, it became personal. The folks who charge the scooters at night placed them out in the morning—effectively blocking anyone from using the sidewalk. While others might be able to walk around the scooters, I didn’t have that choice.”
By LJ Herman -
‘He got to meet his little brother for the first time. He had waited a long time for this moment. Adoption is beautiful.’
“Our son was worried. When I told him the birth mom would be the one bringing his brother in and handing him to us, he asked why she had to do it. He said, ‘Won’t she be sad?’”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘My parents took our dog on a road trip, and stopped in every state to mark his journey!’
“When my parents sent me these pictures of him at each state line, I giggled and thought, ‘My friends HAVE to see this!’”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘I was part of the ‘human rights violations’ taking place on the border.’ Confessions from a paramedic on the border
“Through the course of my career I have spent, off and on, 15 years working as a medic on the border.”
By LJ Herman -
‘The last note he wrote me said ‘LOVE’’: Dying father’s handwritten notes to daughter before she had to do ‘THE HARDEST THING’ for him
“It’s hard to read, but I knew what he was trying to say. As he was writing it, I said, ‘Are you writing you love me?’ He shook his head yes.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘Please don’t let my baby die’: Dallas police officer comforts 3-month-old crash victim
“Please, God, not another one tonight — and especially with kids involved.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I fell to the floor and screamed’: Daughter rushes to marry in dad’s hospital room ‘while he was still with us’ after brain stroke
“I told him Taylor and I were finally married and that I knew he would be proud. At that point, I knew my dad wasn’t coming back.”
By Eliza Murphy -
