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I refused to save my 9-year-old stepson\u2019s life\u2026 until I saw what he did while I was gone.<\/strong><\/p>\n When doctors said I was the only bone marrow match for Leo, my husband\u2019s son, I said no. I told myself he wasn\u2019t biologically mine and the risks were too high.<\/p>\n I left for two weeks, convinced they\u2019d find another donor.<\/p>\n When I finally came home, the walls were covered with Leo\u2019s drawings of our family. Above every picture he had written one word: \u201cMom.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Next to his bed was a jar filled with tiny paper stars. My husband whispered that Leo folded one every time the pain got worse because he believed if he made 1,000 stars<\/strong>, I would come back and save him.<\/p>\n That night, I told the doctors to schedule the surgery.<\/p>\n Months later, Leo walked into my hospital room with a new drawing of the three of us \u2014 and at the top he wrote \u201cMom\u201d<\/strong> again.<\/p>\n Sometimes love isn\u2019t about blood. I refused to save my 9-year-old stepson\u2019s life\u2026 until I saw what he did while I was gone. When doctors said I was the only bone marrow match for Leo, my husband\u2019s son, I said no. I told myself he wasn\u2019t biologically mine and the risks were too high. I left for two weeks, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15007,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions\/15007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It\u2019s about the moment you choose to show up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"