She works to keep her daughter’s memory alive
“Sometimes it gets really awkward, especially when someone asks how many kids you have and you’re not quite sure how to answer. Normally I say, well, I have my 7-year-old son and I have my daughter...
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Trying to stay positive during latest pregnancy
“MEND has this thing in October, which is Infant Awareness Loss Month, where they have a balloon release in memory of those who passed away. My fiancé actually proposed to me there. He wanted to incorporate...
Daughter learns from her mother’s experience
“I dropped out of high school between the 10th and 11th grade after I had my daughter. I tried, but it was really hard working and going to school. “I was working at McDonald’s, trying to...
Like mother, like daughter when it comes to health
Mother, age 54: “I was a fast food queen at one time, so I just wanted to get back to being healthy again. I wasn’t sick or anything. I just knew that internally things didn’t feel...
‘I finally decided I needed to take some time to live’
“My biggest challenge as a teacher and single parent is just trying to balance everything in life. My career is pretty demanding, what with the amount of time needed to do the job. But as I’ve...
She expresses herself through fire hula hooping
“I saw somebody fire hula hooping one time and I was like, I want to learn how to do that. I also spin fire poi. To me it’s like a form of expression, almost like a...
‘She’s not going to just sit down and rust out’
“She worked for many years taking care of children and cleaning house. Now she sits on the porch and sneaks out back to cut her grass with scissors because the lawnmower didn’t do a good enough...
‘All I ever wanted was to be a mom’
“She’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Now we’d like to have a boy. “When I was younger, all I ever wanted was to be a mom. But I wanted to be different from...
He fights for the right to spend time with daughter
“After I graduated high school, I started a skateboard company and helped sponsor kids here that deserved it. I helped some of them go on tour. “Then I had a daughter; she’s 2 now. Skateboarding is...
Mother broken-hearted over daughter’s life
“I came to visit because I hoped my daughter would listen to me. But I have never experienced in my whole life someone who is so blind, who cannot see. She is a different human being...
