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After my divorce, I started volunteering at the food bank just to cope. Then one rainy Thursday, Dariel\u2019s mom showed up\u2014the woman who once told me I was \u201ctoo emotional\u201d for her son.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t recognize me at first. But when our eyes met, she whispered, I couldn\u2019t shake it. I found out she\u2019d lost her home. Dariel had moved away. She was living in a motel.<\/p>\n Eventually, I asked if she needed anything.<\/p>\n \u201cI need my son to stop hating me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n I called Dariel. Left a voicemail.<\/p>\n A week later, they came together. Quiet. Side by side.<\/p>\n As she passed, Dariel looked at me. Days later, I got a card with a pressed flower inside. I started volunteering to distract myself. After my divorce, I started volunteering at the food bank just to cope. Then one rainy Thursday, Dariel\u2019s mom showed up\u2014the woman who once told me I was \u201ctoo emotional\u201d for her son. She didn\u2019t recognize me at first. But when our eyes met, she whispered,\u201cIt\u2019s your fault I\u2019m here.\u201d I couldn\u2019t shake it. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5772","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\/5772","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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cIt\u2019s your fault I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
\u201cThanks,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying. Thank you. \u2013D\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
But in the end, I helped them find their way back\u2014
and found a piece of myself, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"