This Mother And Son's Blood Is On All Our Hands

On this Mother’s Day, I am recognizing and celebrating a very brave woman. She’s not related to me nor is she famous. She won’t go down in history nor will she ever be considered anything but ordinary, societally. To me, however, she is extraordinary.

The Reason? 

This woman loves and every day that she does, she grows one step closer to leaving her beautiful and precious son behind without her...without anyone really to care for him once she, herself, dies. She’s seventy years-old at present. Her reality is daunting.

 And yet, she gets up and goes on - everyday. Loving him, protecting him the best she can, facing the circumstances born to her forty-one years earlier that left her husbandless and her Autistic son, Todd, fatherless. 

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