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How A Stranger Changed My Life
It was at a time when I had just lost my job and as a single mother with 2 boys and no support system I just knew that we were going to be homeless. I had enough money in my account to pay rent, get some groceries and put enough gas in my car to get us to do both and get home. I was staying in income based apartments so my rent was only 700$ but when you’re jobless it might as well have been a million dollars. I was lost, afraid, and an emotional wreck.
For many a nights I would put my boys to sleep, sneak out on my apartment balcony and cry my eyes out to my bestfriend who lived 300 miles away. I would confide in her about how I felt like I failed as a parent and how I didn’t know what my next move would be. I was at the lowest point that I had ever been and I just knew that I would never recover.
Little Snippets of Love
I will never forget the moment my neighbor introduced herself to me. It was on one of my wallowing nights of self pity. I was sitting in a hard plastic chair with my son’s “Thomas the Train” blanket wrapped around my shoulder when she stepped out on her balcony across from me. She said nothing at first, she just leaned against the railing as her music drifted from inside her home and filled my ears. Tupac’s Keep your head Up was playing.
