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‘We die once when the last breath leaves our bodies. We die a second time when the last person speaks our name.’ The first death is beyond our control, but the second one we can strive to prevent.”
How can things still be this way? That’s the reason for Tales from the Underground, I tell myself. Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.
naïve need to feel worthy and wanted. I like to think I spared that tiny baby girl the shame I carried with me, the disdainful looks other people cast my way, the horrible names my mother called me. I hope I gave my daughter to wonderful parents who never for a moment let her feel unloved. If I ever see her again, I’ll tell her that she was never unloved, not for a moment. Someone else loved her from her first breath, wanted her, thought of her, hoped for her. I remember you. I’ve always remembered you. On that day of reunion, whenever it comes, those are the first words I will say to my own
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This hit home thinking of my littles biological families. How they must miss their grandchildren. I can’t wait to meet those that are already with the Father!