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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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