“My mom asked, ‘Have you heard about the van life girl who is missing?’ I couldn’t let this story go. There were so many weird similarities between her travels and my own.”
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“My mom asked, ‘Have you heard about the van life girl who is missing?’ I couldn’t let this story go. There were so many weird similarities between her travels and my own.”
“Her suspected murderer. The person of interest in her case. Abuser. The last person to see her alive. A fiancé or boyfriend is compassionate, loving, empathetic, and protective. He lost that title.”
“The bunnies formed a close bond with Bailey.”
“‘You never know how much you’ll miss them until those cleats get hung up for the last time.’ Suddenly, the brand markings on his uniform and on the package of dog allergy meds he held in his hand slipped from my view. All I could see and hear was a parent who loved his children deeply. And it broke me.”
“I woke up in the ICU after an overdose. ALL that was on my mind was, ‘How am I going to convince my wife to give me money to pick up more heroin?’ 3 hours after being discharged, I was meeting my dealer.”
“You see firefighters saving cats in movies, but I really thought those were just stories!”
“You would never guess that before my smiling family photo, I was berated for an outfit choice. That in the pictures of me on vacation or my birthday, I’m wearing sunglasses to hide my bruises.”
“Medications, injections, acupuncture, growth hormones, hot Chinese herbs, burning moxibustion sticks. No cold, raw, or processed foods and drinks. No products with parabens, fragrances, and BPA. I was mad at the world. Every second, another woman was discovering an ‘oopsie pregnancy,’ while I had done nothing short of Olympic-level aerial gymnastics to get pregnant—and it still didn’t matter.”
“It’s there when we’re cooking dinner while simultaneously singing nursery rhymes to the baby. It’s there when we’re packing lunches, putting the kids to bed, playing hide and seek and doing arts and crafts.”
“It started out as a good-humored reply to his girlfriend’s texts checking in on the kids. Now, it is a regularly anticipated occurrence.”