Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tears well up in Joy's eyes as she stands at the pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...
...MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WAIT on a New Orleans park bench for their respective buses to arrive. Every working day, the child takes one bus to school, and the mother rides another to work. When the vehicles pull up, mother and daughter part company, as usual. But the girl realizes she has left her school books on the bench, and she runs back to retrieve them. By now the mother has boarded her own bus. With a maternal premonition of danger, the woman tries...
...could see two men jump out of a car and grab her," says the mother. "I yelled at the bus driver to let me off. When he turned toward me, he was wearing a hood, and his eyes were big flames of fire like he was the devil. He was laughing and wouldn't open the door. I couldn't get out of the bus, but I could hear my daughter yelling." The bus drives away...
...that instant, Sherri Belonga wakes up screaming. She sits upright in bed. Leonard Howard, her fiance, is also awake. "Leonard says to me, 'It's only a dream,' " Sherri reports. She is a 25-year-old single mother. Bianca, 9, the girl in the dream, is her only child. That night Sherri can not fall back asleep. Months later, the dream still haunts...
...weekends Bianca often visits her grandmother, with whom she was especially close in the pre-Leonard days. Since Bianca and Sherri moved, Bianca's affections have shifted in the direction of her mother. Last November Bianca wrote in her school journal, "I would like to say something nice to a special person, Mom. My mom always stand by my side when I needed her. My mom always love me, took very good care of me. And always teached me wrong to right. I always love my mother." Mother and daughter grew up together. In some respects, they were raised more...