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The Businessman Who Helped To Mend Children's Broken Hearts
Sitting watching Tom Hank’s Big in the 1980’s, a young Timur Tillyaev dreamt of living a life of excitement in America. But growing up in a small two-bedroom apartment in Soviet Uzbekistan made his goal seem very far away.
By Zoe Nauman5 years ago in Families
Another Full Circle
There she stood, off in the distance though I was closing it fast, my adopted momster. Don't get me wrong, she's good to everyone else but me, so goes the story of my life. It was probably four or so years ago that she found me again after disowning me when I was fifteen and I'm now 52, you do the math. Anyway, now she is like one of my bestfriends. We text everyday and we visit in person every chance we get. She has asked me to forgive her for getting rid of me and I think I have but not having ever been forgiven myself I'm not sure I know how. She still won't tell me why, even though I already know.
By Vonia Martin5 years ago in Families
X Marks the Spot
I want to tell you the story of Robert and Angelica Westberg. Brother and sister, Robert was the oldest with 11 years under his belt, so naturally, he was his sister’s keeper as she was only a mere seven years old. They lived, well, really, they didn’t live anywhere. They were homeless. They stayed mostly on the west side of 46th Ave but moved around when possible to avoid being caught and taken to an orphanage. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, they’re also orphans. Their parents, Micheal and Willow Westberg, died about six months ago. They went out for coffee and pastries one morning, and around 5 pm the same day, the police chief arrived at their home to tell the children the unfortunate news.
By Dejza Sims5 years ago in Families
Holy Grail Parenting
It's irrational in my opinion, that many people think because they were parented a certain way, that they should just repeat the same methods for their own children. Here's why you need to have critical thinking skills and know how to gather information on parenting from different sources. In the end, you have the freedom to raise your children as you see fit. Just make sure that you have the patience, empathy, responsibility and knowledge necessary to do it. This way you can raise a happy, healthy child without damaging another person for life.
By The LearnED Individual5 years ago in Families
Golden Wedding Anniversary
Golden Wedding Anniversary My parents had been married for nearly fifty years. I had done nothing for their 25th wedding anniversary, nor their 30th, or their 40th. It was insensitive of me. I am a very bad daughter. And my mother was not going to let me get away with it again. She called me a few weeks before her Golden Wedding Anniversary and told me that needed to talk. I went to see her and took her to lunch at Luby’s to see what was up.
By Gayle Michaels5 years ago in Families
The Gift
The phone started ringing, Petra popped upright in bed. The phone, which had been resting on her chest- exactly where it had fallen to at some early morning hour, flew unceremoniously across the room landing on a pile of laundry as yet undone. Petra, flailed, trying to get to the phone before it stopped ringing. Still half below the silky surface of deep sleep interrupted, she attempted a roll-to-stand, ending in a roll-to-fall including one foot inexplicably tangled in the bedsheets. "Crap!", bellowed Petra as she low-crawled to the pile and her phone, reaching the phone just as it stopped ringing. The missed call announcing itself as MOM on the screen.
By Diana Bruce5 years ago in Families
Little Black Notebook
A diligent young man of 11 years old, with soft, curly red hair and freckles was walking home from school when he noticed a little black notebook peeking out from the corner of a bush in cranky old Ms. McGregor's yard with a strange shimmery symbol on the cover.
By Brandy Chupp5 years ago in Families
Pigwell
In Pigwell, time isn’t measured by days or weeks but by the number of eighteen-wheelers that drive past our house. That’s how I know when the weekends come and go. There isn’t as much trucking between Dilley and Carrizo Springs on the weekend, but at night, you can hear them run up and down I-35 to Laredo and back. My Ma and me still have to get up before dawn every day and tend to the hogs and goats and chickens we keep, weekends or not.
By Darryl Brooks5 years ago in Families
My Sister
Hi, I'm new to Vocal Media, it's crazy I've seen so many of the sponsored ads on Instagram and would save them in my inbox to later go back to see what this particular platform is all about. It has literally been months, but recently I'd see them consistently and I knew the UNIVERSE was speaking directly to me so here I am.
By Bluejaye Manifest5 years ago in Families
