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I’ll tell you.
I worked whatever jobs I could get. I cleaned offices at night and folded laundry at a motel on weekends.
When money was tight, I told him I’d already eaten.
When the fridge was bare, I learned how to stretch soup for three days. I learned how to sew patches onto jeans and smile like nothing was wrong.
Every night, I tucked him in and said the same thing.
And every morning, he woke up calling my name.
I did everything I could to make sure he never felt abandoned.
He’d already lost so much, and I wasn’t about to let him lose anything else.
I never once imagined I’d end up raising a young child at that stage of my life, but you do what you have to do, right?
Somehow, I made it work.
When Noah called me last year and said, “Grandma, I’m getting married,” I sat down right there at my kitchen table and cried.
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