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Welita was always saying how family was the most important thing in this world. And we were doing this to stay together.
“No llores. Big girls no cry,”
Please continue to keep our family safe and healthy. Amen.
Welita had said that if she’d cried in front of her, then the woman would have known the power she’d had over her. She’d always told us that people who hurt us don’t deserve our tears.
When will you learn that living with something you don’t love is not living at all?”
gift is a gift, and you should always be grateful for anything someone gives you out of love. The day you tell someone what to give you is the day you no longer get gifts out of love, but rather obligation. Well, for me, I’d rather have the love.”
It’s funny how you can get your mind to focus on the tiniest of details in order to block out, or ignore, the bigger picture.
“Family is the most important thing in this world. Sometimes, though, you don’t realize it until you don’t have it anymore.”
holding on to only the bad things that happened
to us leaves us too tired to enjoy the good.”
My family included some of the nosiest, most frustrating, most meddling people around. But I loved every single one of them. And I couldn’t leave them. Not yet.
Sometimes, you find the strength to do what scares you most if you believe your life will be better because of it.”
It’s funny how you only come to appreciate things when it’s time to leave them behind.
