Since the day I met you, you have always held a special place in my heart that no one will ever be able to replace. From that short blonde hair that blew in the wind as you ran down the side walk with your ice cream chalk, to the dance parties we have in our living room; all those things make me love you even more. I never expected for your father and I to start a relationship let alone marry each other, but what I did know is that I wanted you in my life for the rest of my life. At the beginning it wasn't that easy, you didn't care for me and I understood why. You didn't want me with you daddy and you made that know. For such a little girl you knew exactly what was going on. You had feelings and you knew they were normal. Lillian I will never hold any of those feelings against you. I...
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When the sun came up on March 15, 2015, I expected it to be a beautiful day full of sunshine, family and prayer. And it was, although not in the way I had anticipated. We spent the morning in church with my 3-month-old son, welcoming him into God’s family through baptism. When we returned home to continue the celebration, we found my father motionless on our living room floor. Joy quickly turned to shock, then desperation as we tried to revive him, and finally overwhelming grief upon realization that it was too late. A joyous celebration of life suddenly turned into a sobering acceptance of death.
Amidst the chaos someone called 911, so a paramedic team and two police officers arrived shortly thereafter. I’m sure this is routine for emergency responders; those calls where they...
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I'm an overly-dramatic-seventeen-year-old girl. I get mad over insignificant things, I laugh at things that really aren't funny, and I'm considered over dramatic. Most adults talk to me about college or they talk to me because they saw something my mom posted about me on Facebook. Adults in this town have seen me grow up but they still only know what I allow them to. Other than these two reasons, it seems that adults tend to steer clear of teenagers in general, but you didn't.
You came into my life at the beginning of my senior year. I was stressed out 95% of the time and when I wasn't stressed out it seemed that I would find something to stress over or life would be sure to provide something new. At the beginning, I was unsure of you. You were unsure of me. I had a life of heartbreak...
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Let me guess, he hasn’t called you in two days, he ditched you for the umpteenth time to hang out with “buddies”, he told you that you looked horrible in your new dress (which, by the way, looking back at is beautiful and you have yet to find another dress that hugs your bodacious curves like that one did), and he left you stranded on the side of the road, in the middle of the night, on an unnerving street corner thirty blocks from home. What else is new?
You might not believe me when I tell you this, but, he’s not the best you can do. In fact, he’s close to the worst. You just don’t know it yet. You know how I know he’s close to the most reprehensible male you’ve ever met? It’s because gentlemen exist, and one fell madly in love with you. It’s true.
Somewhere along the way and...
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Dear dad,
There are many things I would like to call you but I won't. To the things you've done to me in the past that have made me so scared and broken that I have trust issues with my current boyfriend.
To the time I was 3 months old and you abandoned my mom and I for no absolute reason.
To the time when I was 3 and you told me my mom didn't love me because she was trying to get full custody of me.
To the time you got a new girlfriend when I was 5 and had my amazing little sister then left her mom and broke her just like you broke my mom.
To the time you let me stay up till 11 when I was 7 and said I had to sleep in or there would be consequences and when I couldn't sleep in you locked me in my room all day.
To the time you got another girlfriend with 2 kids and then...
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Dear Parents,
You ARE perfect. Society is not the deciding factor in this. What truly matters is the manner in which you raise members of this world. If you're doing what's best for you and your children, then you remain perfect.
Single parents, you are super heroes that don't receive enough credit. According to the Forum on Children and Family Statistics, 28% of children in America are raised in single parent homes. That means 1/4 of this generation is being raised to understand the value of independency. Your children grow up seeing you take care of them on your own on a daily basis. They see how much work goes into your routine. Your children are also raised to understand the value of hard work. Many of you are working multiple jobs to provide for your family. You also teach...
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Valentine's Day, 2016, He was having chest pains. Nana called my Mom and Dad, and they rushed to his aid. Being a stubborn old man, Brown Blood, refused to help himself. That morning, he had a heart attack and didn't make it. I will forever hate Feb, 14th.
About an hour after he passed, I watched Simon and Michelle walk over to me at work, and I have never seen either of them so upset. Something was wrong, and I could feel my stomach doing flips. But I kept telling myself, everything was probably fine. Shaking his head no, Simon tried pulling the bucket I was carrying away. With a shaking voice, he told me "Your Grandfather...." and I was shaking my head in disbelief, no, no, no. He continued, "He had a heart attack....... He didn't make it." He didn't get all of his words out before...
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Did you ever wonder about me the way I wondered about you? Did you look in the mirror say to yourself "I wonder if she has my eyes, nose, lips...."? Did you find yourself daydreaming about who and what I was becoming? Did you wonder about my school performance, my friends, or my home life? Did you ever think about coming back? Did you think of me or only of yourself?
I thought of you. I thought of you every single day. I convinced myself that there was a legitimate reason you weren't there. I was sure that one day you were coming back, and you'd tell me how much you loved me, and explain why you'd been away for so long. Surely you loved me. People here in town who had known you told me this.
"Honey, you were the apple of his eye."
"He worshipped the ground you walked on."
You...
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I could start off out-right bashing you, calling you any of the names that most of my friends would agree that you deserve. I could use this moment to get 15 minutes of fame and likes from people who want to eat some popcorn and read a good soap opera. But you would be winning, wouldn't you?
I wanted to say that I'm okay. You did a lot of damage, physically and mentally, but I'm healing. There's a lot that I'm still scared of, and I know that's a product of the abuse. But I never could have imagined a day that I would smile so much when you weren't in my life, that I would allow myself to like another man, or that I could start to see a hopeful future spreading out before me. I didn't see this the first time we broke up. Or the tenth. Or every other time except for the last time.
I'm...
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Hey you,
I hated you when we first met. You were always just there which annoyed me because it was always just my mom and I and I loved it that way. I was four and I still thought that a 200 pound man had nothing on me. I told you I would tell my mom to kick you out if ever you made me do anything I didn't want to do, completely thinking that she would. Man, am I ever glad she didn't.
I believe my hate for you started to fade when I realized you would actually get up with me and watch Saturday morning cartoons. I say watch but really you fell right back asleep on that couch while i sat beside you completely oblivious to the fact that you were not watching. The ice cream dates you used to take me on were pretty great too!
As I grew up you were always my favourite adult to talk...
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