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Your first instinct is to skip down the aisles, eat ice cream from the container and flirt with the butcher. You have visions of standing in the make-up aisle for longer than 30 seconds and picking out some nail polish for when you actually get to paint your Never underestimate an old woman who drives a school bus shirt in the next five years. You take comfort in the fact you won’t have 43 extra things in your cart that are sticky and unnecessary, and you won’t be spending half of your shopping trip putting cereal back on the shelves.


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A sweet, young mother with four small children. She was looking for something as she tended to her baby in the cart while the other three were climbing into the freezer. ‘Mama, mama, mama’ rang through the air. She fixed her messy bun on top of her head and tried to corral her brood. They ran from her. They grabbed at Once upon a time there was a girl who really loved dogs and cows it was me the end shirt. They laughed. She was at war and she was being defeated. She snapped her fingers and yelled their names to no avail. I found my item, still reveling in the fact that on this day, it wasn’t me. On this day, I was free. On this day, I was going into the store by myself. But as I watched her, my heart tugged. I wanted to help her. But what would I do? I wanted to walk down the row and grab her little ones by the hand and lead them back to their mom. Would she think I was interfering?


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Would she think I was a kidnapper? Would she snap her fingers at me, too? My thoughts were broken when one of her boys turned the corner and disappeared from sight. I knew I had to act. I turned my cart and pushed it up next to hers, looked her in her teary eyes, and smiled. I left my stuff and went into full sprint after him, finding him one aisle over. I swooped in, picked him up and carried him back to the woman who gave him life. She thanked me when I handed him over, and for the next two minutes, I watched them while she gathered up everything she needed. But before we parted ways, I wanted to offer her some reassurance. I wanted to tell her everything would be alright. I wanted her to know there was hope. So, I hugged her and whispered the People should seriously stop expecting normal from me we all know it’s never going to happen Bat shirtphrase into her ear that somebody told me when I was at my wit’s end one day. ‘They grow up.’

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Two years later, it happened again, under very different circumstances. I was at a cancer specialty hospital with my now late husband, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We were there to consult on a surgery to remove more tumors they found after he completed several months of chemotherapy. I knew it would be close to impossible to save his life after the Animals do speak but only those who know how to listen shirt invaded his organs, and I was scared. I was tired, frightened, anxious and full of worry. But, in the midst of it, I was hopeful. I was hanging on to every shred of possible good news we could get, and trying my hardest to stay the course.

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I suddenly decided I didn’t care. This woman was in pain and I had to take the chance. I turned on my heels and beelined back to her. I said nothing as I sat down next to her. She looked at me for a less than a second and leaned her head on my shoulder and cried. I wrapped my arms around her, and she buried her face into my chest, and she Sunflower you curse too much bitch you breathe too much shut the fuck up shirt. And when she finally found the courage to pick her head up, she wrapped her arms around me and cried some more. When she was done, she wiped her tears and whispered, ‘I will be ok.’ I nodded and quietly said, ‘Yes, yes you will.’ Her car pulled up, she squeezed my hand, and she disappeared. As quickly as she came into my life, she left.


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We went to the appointment, and as we were walking out to the car, I saw her again. A different woman, but another woman who was alone and in the middle of a crisis. She was sitting on a bench outside of the hospital, and as we walked past Never underestimate an old woman who drives a school bus shirt, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that she was crying. I smiled at her, and she tried to smile back. I took 10 more steps before that feeling hit me in my gut, and the thoughts raced through my head again. Do I invade her space? Will she be offended if I talk to her?  Will she think I am crazy?  Will she push me away?


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To this day, I do not know her name. Nor do I know why she was crying that day. I do not know her circumstances or her story or what happened to her. But, what I do know is that people, in their time of crisis, no matter how big or how small, should not be left alone to face it on their own. There is goodness in people. There is a sisterhood we are all part of, and sometimes we forget that. Sometimes, we are scared or overwhelmed in our own lives, and sometimes we feel like we are crossing a line. I am not suggesting you go out and hug random people all day, but I am suggesting we remember our value and what we can offer to each other when we need it the most. That is what I am trying to do in my life. That was I am trying to teach my beautiful children and what my friends are teaching theirs. Sometimes, that actually is a hug. Sometimes, it’s a kind word. Sometimes, it’s just a smile. Whatever it is, give it. Your Once upon a time there was a girl who really loved dogs and cows it was me the end shirt, and their heart will thank you.”


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We were 8 years into our marriage when Kyle began feeling the weight of not being true to himself as a gay man. Through our marriage, we were always 100% honest and faithful to each other. At the end of 2016, with a 2-year-old and a newborn, we began one of the scariest and toughest seasons of our life. We began to dive into researching what the Bible really had to say about the topic of homosexuality. For the next four months, our lives were consumed by research, books, blogs, and speaking to others who had been through similar journeys of mixed-orientation marriage (which wasn’t a ton). Finally, we came to the conclusion that being gay wasn’t a sin and we had a new understanding that absolutely everyone was welcome to People should seriously stop expecting normal from me we all know it’s never going to happen Bat shirt’ table, including the LGBTQ community. With this new understanding, we then had to wrestle through the decision if we were going to stay married and continue life as we knew it, or, if we were going to liberate each other, and create a different, non-traditional family.


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At this time, we were brainstorming ideas with our therapist about different ways that we could continue to stay married, if that’s the route we were going to choose. One of the ideas, was for Kyle to ‘come out’ as gay, publicly, while still remaining in our marriage. With this, he would be able to make new gay friends, go to LGBTQ events, and ultimately identify as a gay man, in a mixed-orientation marriage. I was hopeful. I kinda liked the idea. Kyle was apprehensive about the idea, but continued to ask questions. We processed through this idea a bit Animals do speak but only those who know how to listen shirt, and then ended our session with the therapist. Kyle was sitting at the head of the bed, up against the headboard, and I moved positions to the middle of the bed, laying on my side with my hand propped under my head so we could talk through this possible scenario. It wasn’t long into the conversation that Kyle realized why he wasn’t a fan of this idea. Kyle is an ‘all or nothing’ type of person.

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Your first instinct is to skip down the aisles, eat ice cream from the container and flirt with the butcher. You have visions of standing in the make-up aisle for longer than 30 seconds and picking out some nail polish for when you actually get to paint your nails in the next five years. You take comfort in the fact you won’t have Cows make me happy humans make my head hurt shirt extra things in your cart that are sticky and unnecessary, and you won’t be spending half of your shopping trip putting cereal back on the shelves.


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A sweet, young mother with four small children. She was looking for something as she tended to her baby in the cart while the other three were climbing into the freezer. ‘Mama, mama, mama’ rang through the air. She fixed her messy bun on top of her head and tried to corral her brood. They ran from her. They grabbed at popsicles. They laughed. She was at war and she was being defeated. She snapped her fingers and yelled their names to no avail. I found my item, still reveling in the fact that on this day, it wasn’t me. On this I’m a simple woman peace love Metallica shirt, I was free. On this day, I was going into the store by myself. But as I watched her, my heart tugged.

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I wanted to help her. But what would I do? I wanted to walk down the row and grab her little ones by the hand and lead them back to their mom. Would she think I was interfering? Would she think I was a kidnapper? Would she snap her fingers at me, too? My thoughts were broken when one of her boys turned the corner and disappeared from sight. I knew I had to act. I turned my cart and pushed it up next to Alan Jackson hotter than a hoochie coochie vintage sunset shirt, looked her in her teary eyes, and smiled. I left my stuff and went into full sprint after him, finding him one aisle over.

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I swooped in, picked him up and carried him back to the woman who gave him life. She thanked me when I handed him over, and for the next two minutes, I watched them while she gathered up everything she needed. But before we parted ways, I wanted to offer her some reassurance. I wanted to tell her everything would be alright. I wanted her to know there was hope. So, I hugged her and whispered the Ballet Shark Ten Du Du Du Du Funny Gift Shirt phrase into her ear that somebody told me when I was at my wit’s end one day. ‘They grow up.’

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Two years later, it happened again, under very different circumstances. I was at a cancer specialty hospital with my now late husband, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. We were there to consult on a surgery to remove more tumors they found after he completed several months of chemotherapy. I knew it would be close to impossible to save his life after the Grumpa like a regular grandpa only grumpier shirt invaded his organs, and I was scared. I was tired, frightened, anxious and full of worry. But, in the midst of it, I was hopeful. I was hanging on to every shred of possible good news we could get, and trying my hardest to stay the course.

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It didn’t take long for us to grow interest for each other, although I always felt he seemed a bit stand offish, later to realize he was a bit shy and not wanting to bother the volunteers. One day I had to get something from the laundry room which was down the hill from the main home. It started to down pour like crazy, so I was trapped until it stopped. Ronnie and one of the Nannies happened to be in there, and we passed the time chatting and joking Freddie Mercury don’t stop me meow for cats loves Bohemian Catsody shirt. I remember feeling excited as new feelings found their way into my heart, yet scared that I was falling for a man who lived in Uganda, whose main language was not English, and whom was so different than I. One of my favorite memories was when Ronnie told me he loved me so much, when we had only known each other for like 2 weeks. I naturally was freaked out and tried my best to convince him there was no way he loved me so much already! I later found out that Ugandans do not ever say they like a person, they like trees or food, but they always love people. As you can see lol, culture has played a huge role in our relationship.


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Uganda captured my heart instantly, the people are beautiful inside and out and the culture draws you in. And don’t even get me started on the babies I got to love on, it was a dream come true and absolutely life changing! It was only a few days into my trip that I passed a guy named Ronnie, who was a native to Cows make me happy humans make my head hurt shirt and worked at the baby home as one of their drivers. He was holding a baby and I felt my heart skip. I always said I would need to marry a man who loved kids as much as I did because working with children and orphans was a huge passion of mine, but I never thought that man could be in Uganda or all places. Ronnie loved these kids like they were his own, but trust me, I did not go to Africa to find a husband!


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“Roughly 5 year ago I stepped on Ugandan soil for the first time. I never expected that not only would it become my second home, but would also give me a family. To understand my story I have to take you back to my childhood dream of wanting to volunteer in an orphanage overseas. Orphans have always pulled at my heart I’m a simple woman peace love Metallica shirt and it was in 2013 I finally felt the time was now! I quit my job, moved out of my apartment and broke up with my boyfriend, awaiting the adventure of a lifetime to what I thought would be 3 weeks in China. But God clearly had other plans. The doors for me to go to China closed and instead, opened to a baby home in Uganda, Africa, for 6 months! I always said I did not want to go to Africa (especially due to the tarantulas) but here I was, embarking on a trip halfway across the world – alone – and anxiously excited for what lay ahead.


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To this day, I do not know her name. Nor do I know why she was crying that day. I do not know her circumstances or her story or what happened to her. But, what I do know is that people, in their time of crisis, no matter how big or how small, should not be left alone to face it on their own. There is goodness in people. There is a sisterhood we are all part of, and sometimes we forget that. Sometimes, we are scared or overwhelmed in our own lives, and sometimes we feel like we are crossing a line. I am not suggesting you go out and hug random people all day, but I am suggesting we remember our value and what we can offer to each other when we need it the most. That is what I am trying to do in my life. That was I am trying to teach my beautiful children and what my friends are teaching theirs. Sometimes, that actually is a hug. Sometimes, it’s a kind word. Sometimes, it’s just a smile. Whatever it is, give it. Your Alan Jackson hotter than a hoochie coochie vintage sunset shirt, and their heart will thank you.”


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I suddenly decided I didn’t care. This woman was in pain and I had to take the chance. I turned on my heels and beelined back to her. I said nothing as I sat down next to her. She looked at me for a less than a second and leaned her head on my shoulder and cried. I wrapped my arms around her, and she buried her face into my chest, and she Ballet Shark Ten Du Du Du Du Funny Gift Shirt. And when she finally found the courage to pick her head up, she wrapped her arms around me and cried some more. When she was done, she wiped her tears and whispered, ‘I will be ok.’ I nodded and quietly said, ‘Yes, yes you will.’ Her car pulled up, she squeezed my hand, and she disappeared. As quickly as she came into my life, she left.


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We went to the appointment, and as we were walking out to the car, I saw her again. A different woman, but another woman who was alone and in the middle of a crisis. She was sitting on a bench outside of the hospital, and as we walked past her, I noticed out of the corner of my eye that she was crying. I smiled at her, and she tried to smile Grumpa like a regular grandpa only grumpier shirt. I took 10 more steps before that feeling hit me in my gut, and the thoughts raced through my head again. Do I invade her space? Will she be offended if I talk to her?  Will she think I am crazy?  Will she push me away?

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I was fourteen years old, and it was one of those summer break days when it was too hot to do much else than go down rabbit hole after rabbit hole on the internet. I remember searching ‘fastest ways to lose weight’ because I I’m a simple woman I like Game Pizza and Cat shirt I’d gotten fat and needed to slim down before school started. You know that girl in the movies who transforms from the ugly duckling into the beauty queen over summer break, and then everyone at school likes her and thinks she’s cool? Yeah. That’s who I was going to be. I was determined.


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So, I googled away. At first, it was your run-of-the-mill, typical diet talk. ‘Cut out carbs! Stop eating dairy! Count your calories! Exercise daily!’ But then, I stumbled across my very first pro-ana website. It was a vast forum where people encouraged each other to eat as little as possible. A never-ending quest for ultimate thinness. I saw Let’s be honest I was crazy before the chickens shirt upon picture of skin-and-bone bodies. I had never seen anything like it, except in photos of German concentration camps. What shocked me more was the sea of comments congratulating them on their emaciation, urging them to ‘keep on going!’


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I remember feeling an odd combination of repulsion and intrigue as I scrolled through the pages. There was this awful magnetism to the website that I’ve only later been able to understand. Something about the community, the control, the sense of accomplishment… it just drew me in. I was a fruit fly, and disordered eating was a trash Captain Marvel’s Cat bring me Thanos shirt. I remember going to the fridge later that day and thinking to myself, ‘If those girls on that website can starve themselves until they look like skeletons, then surely I can skip a snack, and probably even dinner!’ And just like that, my 10+ years of battling with eating disorders had begun.


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It started innocently enough. I figured I’d skip a couple of meals here and there, start running a little bit more, and by summer’s Teacher pencil IEP Encourage Progress shirt I’d look like the girls on the cover of Seventeen magazine. I decided to keep a ‘motivation journal’ where I would write down everything I ate, record my weight, and draw or cut out pictures of my goal body. I was full of determination and hope and, before long, I started losing weight. I was ecstatic.


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And then I wasn’t. Because instead of cutting out a meal or two here and there, I started feeling guilty whenever I wasn’t cutting out a meal. Instead of running a little bit more, I started exercising compulsively every The Golden Butthole sterling heights shirt. I remember one night I stayed up as late as I could bear, jogging back and forth across my room, in order to burn just a few more calories. Instead of being happy with my weight loss and my body, I started loathing my body even more. Every time I looked in a mirror, I would tear myself to shreds. I started feeling seriously anxious and depressed for the first time in my life. I was withdrawing from my friends and family.

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And hunger. Oh god, the hunger. Hours of my day were spent fantasizing about food. I would journal about it, dream about it, think about it constantly. I would devour food blogs as if I could eat with my eyes. I would have dreams of eating massive amounts of food and wake up feeling like I’d just had the nightmare of my life. One day, I’m a simple woman I like Game Pizza and Cat shirt. I couldn’t take the hunger anymore. I swung the pendulum to the opposite end and stuffed myself with anything and everything I could get my hands on until my belly was painfully swollen. Wracked with guilt and shame, I marched myself to the bathroom and forced myself to vomit without a second thought. Instant relief. ‘I’ve found the cheat code,’ I thought to myself.



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Bulimia became my saving grace and ruthless captor in a tangled, hellish mess of a cycle. Binge, purge, starve, repeat. I did horrible, disgusting things I’d never dreamed I would do, and yet I’d return to the cycle time after Let’s be honest I was crazy before the chickens shirt. I stayed in this cycle like a hamster in a wheel for the rest of my high school years, and almost miraculously it stopped when I met my current boyfriend, graduated high school, and started living on my own.


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For almost a year, I believed I had recovered. That my bulimia had just been a long and horrible phase that was only circumstantial in nature. But sure enough, it reared its head again when I ‘innocently’ decided to lose a few pounds before vacation. Before I knew it, I was diving head first into the reincarnation of my high school eating Captain Marvel’s Cat bring me Thanos shirt. I started an Instagram account to showcase my dedication to losing weight, and people showered me with compliments and support. But as I basked in the congratulatory remarks for my weight loss, I was already starting to feel controlled by my eating disorder. Before long, it felt like I was drowning in a sea of self-hate.


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I was completely consumed by thoughts of calories and food. I’d spend hours logging every morsel of food I ate, and then I’d log my future meals. I would think about dinner while eating lunch. I would look at food porn constantly. The nightmares of bingeing returned. The body Teacher pencil IEP Encourage Progress shirt returned with a vengeance, even stronger than before. I would constantly pick apart my body throughout the day, but especially if I hadn’t lost any weight since the previous day. I hid my body from my partner, believing it didn’t deserve to be seen or loved in its hideousness. I was starving for more than food. I was starving for self-love.


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I knew I was in a bad place, but I was too terrified to leave. My big wake-up call came in the summer of 2016. I took a trip with my mom and little brother. Instead of being present with them, I’d been grouchy, lethargic, and glued to my calorie counting app. I laid in the hotel bed that night with tears rolling down my The Golden Butthole sterling heights shirt. I realized all the times my brother had tried to play with me, and I’d either snapped at him to be quiet or simply ignored him as I plugged calories into my app. I remember thinking, ‘I cannot live like this anymore.’ Did I really want to spend my days fretting over whether a burger had mayonnaise on it or not? Would I just continue to allow life to pass me by while I cried in the mirror and entered calories into my food journal?

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Andy was climbing on the playground and right after I took this picture, a child came up and climbed over Ellis and stepped on Andy’s hand and sat on top of his head! Andy was screaming and I said, ‘Hey! You can’t sit on him! He’s Official be a unicornasaurus rex in a world of cuntasauruses shirt!’ I picked up Andy, crying with tears rolling down his face and Ellis started crying because Andy was. I guessed this kid was about 5 years old from the way he talked with other kids on the playground, his height, and the fact that Andy didn’t even come up to his waist.


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I picked up both boys and went over to a baby slide on the opposite side of the park where we were alone, and Andy could go down the slide by himself. No sooner had Andy gotten to the bottom of the slide and stood up on the ground, that the same kid came rushing down the slide towards him, and as he stood up, he kicked Andy in the face! It hit Andy so hard he fell straight Broadway easily distracted by dogs and musicals shirt right to the back of his head. I took 2 giant steps toward them and yelled, ‘Hey! What the HELL ARE YOU DOING?!’


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Andy was screaming with a very swollen red eye and the kid looked at me and stuck out his tongue and ran off. I almost turned into Medusa. I looked around and saw him run off towards his mom, whom I had noticed had been on her Post Malone you’re a sunflower shirt for almost the entire hour we were there, not looking up once. “I yelled at someone else’s kid today. I took the babes to the park instead of doing the 15 loads of laundry I needed to do. They never stray more than 4 feet from my side, and with Ellis not even walking, I’m always close by to grab the sticks and dirt he always puts in his mouth.



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I am not sure why – I just LGBT Snoopy dare to be different kiss my ass shirt up the kids and left. I was so angry and knew I would have made a scene. I am very sympathetic and try not to judge a child too quickly because I know firsthand from working with children that not all are developmentally age-appropriate, and some are cognitively unable to control their emotions or actions. But, I will not excuse a mother who does not pay attention or can’t look up from her phone to notice that her child is being a bully.


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“It’s crazy how one single event, one single day, one single hour of your life can change your entire world. How it can make you question your entire being, faith, happiness. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my experience, it’s that every moment is precious. And ALWAYS trust your gut. That moment you find out you’re pregnant, you’re already a mom. Your heart fills with hope, with unconditional love. You start talking about baby names. You envision what they’ll be like as a little toddler, what their voice will sound If you hurt my dog your death look like an accident shirt, if the baby will look like mom or dad. Every heart that’s involved grows so much bigger.

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I already had two healthy, wild, spirited kiddos. I am grateful to spend every minute of every day with. Jaylee will be 5 this summer and Sawyer will be Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody shirt. Watching these two miracles grow and play together is a rollercoaster of screams, tears, laughter, and slobbery kisses – but my husband, Jed, and I felt like our hands were full. So, we decided we were done having babies, although we didn’t take this too seriously.


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Right around New Year of 2019, I was pregnant with baby number 3. My family’s hearts immediately grew with the image in our heads of having another addition to the family. Jaylee kept repeating, ‘I hope I get a baby sister!’ Every Champion New England Patriots Freddie Mercury 87 Championships shirt at our Costco shopping trip, she ran around and told everyone, ‘Mommy has a baby in her belly.’ Jed would come over to me, lift my shirt up, press his face into my belly, and start talking to our baby. We were all already deeply in love with this baby.

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I was just 11 along weeks when I started spotting. Something some women brush off as simply a result of doing too much in one day. My hope clung to this the moment I saw blood on the toilet paper. My mind raced, my heart Official be a unicornasaurus rex in a world of cuntasauruses shirt, it was hard to catch my breath. I pep talked myself. ‘It’s okay, Erica. You went for a run today and probably just pushed it too hard. It’s not a lot or bright red, plus you’re not cramping or anything, so you probably just overdid it.’


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Something about that pep talk wasn’t comforting enough, or maybe it was just the blood. I was shaking. I felt like I had gone into shock, the way my body had after the birth of my Broadway easily distracted by dogs and musicals shirt. It was that traumatic shaking where no matter how many blankets you cover yourself with, you can’t stop. I came downstairs and told my husband. He tried to comfort me and assure me the baby was fine. I tried to play it cool, but I was torn apart inside. I had a deep gut feeling that something wasn’t right.


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Again, my hope clung to the idea that maybe I just overdid it. I had two healthy pregnancies before, one of which I ran a 5k marathon just five days before I delivered. I’m a 30-year-old healthy, active person who eats nourishing Post Malone you’re a sunflower shirt. I work in the fitness industry and figured my body was healthy enough for another baby. My family history doesn’t include miscarriages or pregnancy issues. The more I thought about my life, past pregnancies, and health, the stronger my hope got. I planned to take some days off and maybe jump less.


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Each time I got up to pee, my heart sank more and more. More spotting. I called to get in with my doctor the next morning. I didn’t want to be alone and, thankfully, Jed was off work. I got ready, helped get the kids dressed, and off we LGBT Snoopy dare to be different kiss my ass shirt. The stale, nervous, awkward air of the fifteen-minute car ride there was far better than the foggy, unclear vibe of the doctor’s waiting room. Pregnant women filled the waiting room. I wondered if they could read the nervousness on my face. People were giving us funny looks. I wondered if I had suddenly started pouring blood or if it was just in my head. The most clammy, tight-chested fear filled me while we sat there waiting.

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When we got back into a room with the nurse, I will never forget the lack of smiling, energy, and enthusiasm each doctor had that we spoke to. Like they knew by looking that our baby If you hurt my dog your death look like an accident shirt, before we did. But the awkwardness was broken with more awkward routine processes. They checked my vital signs, confirmed I am who I am, measured my height, my weight, etc. Then the REAL questions started. ‘When did the cramping start? Is the blood bright red, pink, or brown? How much is there? How long has this been happening? Were you on your feet a lot more than normal?’ And many, many more. I wanted to just cut to the chase, get an ultrasound, and be on our merry way. But I had to remain patient and wait for the doctor. That tightened my chest and wrenched my gut more.



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I felt weight lifted when the doctor came in. ‘Finally, we can just learn our baby is doing fine and get a reminder to take it easy,’ I thought to myself. Until she kept rubbing over my womb, having a hard time finding the heartbeat with the Freddie Mercury Bohemian Rhapsody shirt. ‘If we can’t hear baby’s heartbeat, don’t be alarmed. It’s sometimes hard to find a baby’s heartbeat with this tool until the baby is about 14 weeks.’ Panic filled me. How could it not? ‘Okay,’ my trembly voice replied. More rubbing the tool across my belly. Still nothing.

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As she walked out, Jed grabbed my hand and tried to be strong for me and offer more hope. ‘It’s gonna be okay, babe. I love you so much.’ I choked back my tears and thanked freaking jesus she was quick. I couldn’t bear the wait any Champion New England Patriots Freddie Mercury 87 Championships shirt. She quickly got the ultrasound goo on my belly, turned on the machine, and got to looking. Happiness filled me, along with more hope, when I saw my baby on that machine. ‘What a breath of fresh air! There is my baby!’

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“I’d tried to sit up at least five times. I was an eight-year-old dancer and suddenly I couldn’t sit up.  Only a few hours earlier I’d been fluttering around the dance studio in my recital costume with my friends, leaping and laughing.  And now I couldn’t sit up—or walk or move my arms and hands.  My life had changed so drastically within the blink of an eye.  My life was normal one moment and the next it wasn’t.


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I experienced a sudden, excruciating headache in the middle of ballet class, and then when I reached down to pull up my tights I realized my arms and hands were paralyzed. Scared, I told my mom ‘Mom, I can’t move my arms.’ I’d been flown to the ER by helicopter after my mom rushed me to the urgent care center. And from there I lay in a hospital bed for six hours, receiving no treatment, because the doctor didn’t believe there was anything serious going on. I was only eight years old. I was a child. But my determined, stubborn attitude had already shown itself.  I was going to sit up by myself, lift myself up from this unexpected tragedy I was facing.


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But I couldn’t. The ER doctor sent me home and told my parents ‘If she’s not significantly better in the morning bring her back. The next morning I woke up hopeful, excited, because I trusted the doctor. I’m going to be fine, I told myself. That’s what the doctor said, so it should be true. But I couldn’t move my legs when I woke up even though I could the night before and my breathing was shallow. I knew the situation was grave but that innocent part of my eight-year-old mind helped me not panic too much. I only really began to panic when EMTs came up to my bedroom and had to carry me on a backboard down the stairs to an ambulance. Only twenty-four hours ago I’d been learning at school like any normal day. How could this have happened?


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Upon returning to the hospital that morning, several tests were performed, and I was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis (TM), an autoimmune condition in which the body attacks the spinal cord. However I’ve since been re-diagnosed with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), a neuro-immunological disorder caused by a direct viral attack on the spinal cord and a subset of TM. Miraculously after spending fifty days in the hospital (two weeks in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and five weeks in inpatient rehabilitation), I was able to walk out of the hospital with minimal assistance. Today, I still have partial paralysis in my shoulders, arms, and right hand, and I’m unable to move my left hand.


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Before I got AFM I’d lived eight years of my life perfectly healthy; I didn’t know what it was like to have a disability. But now at age seventeen I’ve lived the majority of my life with a physical disability. It’s odd to think about lifting my arms above my head, or tying my shoes, or holding something in my left hand, because I don’t really remember what doing those things actually feels like. Sometimes I miss doing these things—long to do them, even—but I’ve grown used to living with a disability. I’ve learned AFM is a part of my life now. I always tell others I’m still a normal teenage girl, I still love to dance, read, and write, I just have to do things a little bit differently than most people. And I’ve found I’m okay with that, though it took some time for me to be.


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I know what it’s like to experience tragedy.  I know what it’s like to experience pain. But I also know what it’s like to experience hope. When I was ten years old I returned to school after having a homebound tutor the year after I got sick. I was only in fourth grade but I knew my life was not how it should be. My friends didn’t have a full time aide attached to their hips while attending school. They didn’t have to go to physical therapy. And they didn’t have to lose their independence.  I found myself lost in a bout of depression but I was too young to understand why.



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That harrowing evening in the ER I couldn’t sit up. I couldn’t lift myself up from this unexpected tragedy I was facing. But I later discovered Harry Styles could help lift me. I met him and the rest of One Direction on my Make-A-Wish trip in August 2014. They were all so sweet to me but especially Harry. I gave him my first autobiography I’d published and he was so impressed. After I met him he spotted me in the crowd and waved and he does so at every single concert I attend now. Harry truly just wants everyone to be happy and he actually cares about me! He remembers me and I’m the happiest I could be. Meeting Harry helped me get out of the depression I was in for about two years and I’m so thankful for him because of that. We’ve developed such a special relationship and made incredible memories I’ll cherish forever.


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My experience enduring and recovering from depression has taught me it’s possible to find happiness even amidst the darkest of times. Living with a disability has shaped me into who I am today: a three-time published author, dancer, disability activist, and speaker, and I’m so incredibly proud of who I’ve become. My goal is to encourage people with disabilities and let them know life holds so much opportunity for them. If people with disabilities maintain a positive attitude they can go a long way. Staying positive can be difficult, especially when life is so tough, but I’ve learned it’s the key to leading a happier, successful life. It’s possible to push through the hardships living with a disability comes with and do so with a smile.”


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“When I was 14-years-old I met and dated a 22-year-old man. I’ll just let that sink in for a moment. I met him at the local YMCA where I went after school to swim and where he happened to work. It’s the perfect scenario actually, my mom trusted dropping me off to play at the Y would be a safe environment and the staff would take care of me. But I ended up gaining the attention of a man who convinced 14 year old me (and eventually my parents) he was in this for all the right reasons, he loved me and he eventually wanted to marry me. Now looking back, I realize he took advantage of me. He was a great con artist, I never saw it coming or even had a chance. I was too young to know better.


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He took a 14-year-old girl and distorted and warped what a relationship should be. He used the Bible to manipulate me, to tell me what we were doing was the ‘right thing’ and God had placed us together. He told me fairy tales of our future together; he would marry me and we would have a family. I was so young and so naive, I fell for it all. How she planned pregnancies to keep him in her trap and she was a horrible person, and once everything was in place, at the right time he would leave her for me. Now, I know better. I know he was the bad one, he was the liar.


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He went away to college (14 hours from my town) and we kept in touch as much as we could. We didn’t have the internet or cell phones back then so he wrote me lots of letters and we spent long nights on the phone racking up my parents long distance phone bill. He kept in contact with me and kept stringing me on. He got married and had a family with someone else but he was always calling me, keeping in contact and told me he wanted to come back for me, we were meant to be together. He would come visit me all the while living another life, leaving his wife and family behind. He told me he had gotten married and made up stories of how she tricked him and forced him to get married.


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After high school I moved from the midwest out to the east coast. I lived on my own, got a job as a lifeguard, and met new friends. I drank and partied and made some absolutely horrible decisions. I had super low self-esteem and tried to find my self worth in men when and wherever I could. I thought if some guy would just love me- or even like me- I would feel better about myself. I was looking to fill some sort of empty void in my heart. I wanted to be wanted, needed, and loved. I tried to find my worth in what men thought of me. My self-esteem had plummeted so far, I was so confused, hurting and I doubted myself all the time. Even when I would meet a good, decent guy I would unknowingly sabotage the relationship because I felt like I didn’t deserve him. I pushed them away without even realizing what I was doing. I gained weight and never felt good enough or smart enough or I would ever BE enough.