Because she did it for his brother twenty years ago, her younger son wants his mother to watch him.
Being a parent makes you want to provide your kids the best care possible. This holds true throughout their entire lives, not just while they are young.
The reason for this is that having a kid puts you on a multi-year, lifelong journey. Whether they are 50 years old or six months old, they are still your kid.
In the narrative that follows, the mother discovered this all too well, albeit in a most unpleasant way.
Although lightning isn’t meant to hit the same spot twice, life frequently moves to its own booming rhythms due to its erratic pace. I’m Evelyn, and I assumed that my days of unforeseen difficulties were long gone.
But here I am, at a well-known fork in the road. When Michael, my eldest son, contacted me shyly at the age of sixteen, his future was falling apart since his girlfriend was expecting a child. Her parents threw her away after finding out she was pregnant.
She came in with us because she had nowhere else to go, but once she made amends with her own parents, she left her newborn daughter behind.
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