A 32-year-old woman has a best friend named Mia, who is the same age as her, and they originally met back in college. They became instant best friends, and Mia has always told her that she dreamed of having a large, loving family.Unfortunately, Mia’s childhood was awful. She lost her mom, her dad, and her little sister between the ages of 10 to 12. Mia then wound up in foster care, but then her uncle adopted her, but he was abusive to Mia.“Obviously, Mia was/is very mentally unwell, and just a few months ago, she managed to get off her…
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Beggars can’t be choosers” is a popular phrase, but that doesn’t mean that people abide by it.One woman on Reddit is proving this to be true after she criticized her children’s school district over the holiday gifts she received from them. The mother was jealous that her kids received better gifts from the school than she did.The mother’s family was ‘adopted’ by her child’s school, meaning that they would receive gifts from them.However, after her family received all of the gifts, she claimed she would “never do it again” after her child received “better gifts” than she did. In a…
A fitness model is defending her choice of wearing full glam to exercise.Rosa Esparza sparked extreme backlash after sharing videos of how she looked while working out on her social media platforms. Esparza is most known on her TikTok and Instagram accounts, where she shares videos documenting her fitness journey and sharing different workout techniques with her followers. Esparza wears a full face of makeup and unique outfits while working out at the gym.Unlike other people who throw on an oversized T-shirt and workout leggings to exercise, Esparza opts for a more fun look. While filming herself at the gym,…
A new mother has been left shocked and disturbed after overhearing the way her husband speaks to their new baby.Being a new parent is of course rife with frustrations — the lack of sleep alone is enough to shorten most people’s fuses. But what this new mother heard coming out of her husband’s mouth over the baby monitor is anything but normal venting.In a posting to the “r/TrueOffMyChest” subReddit, a forum where people can air out the things that are bothering them, she described overhearing her husband saying things that left her “frozen” in “shock.” She heard her husband ‘cursing…
He was two years old when my husband brought him to come to live with us. I knew him even before I agreed to date my husband. He was living with my husband’s sister. He had been living with her since his mother died. From what my husband told me, he had that child from a relationship he had with another woman. They dated for a couple of months and the lady got pregnant. The lady’s family didn’t accept their relationship because of how it started. They accused him of forcefully having his way with the lady because that’s what…
It was his aunt who called me at dawn that fateful day. Because of my close relationship with her and his mother, I didn’t panic when I saw her call. I didn’t even wonder if everything was okay. I answered the call with pleasure, only to be met with hostility. The woman who treated me with love and kindness since I married her nephew was everything but kind to me that dawn. “Someone cut a piece of fabric on my son’s shirt. You are his wife so you are the one who has the motivation to do such a thing.…
A dad-of-four is reportedly ‘unable to sleep or work’ after suffering ‘life-chan ging injuries’ in a crash with a ‘driver fleeing police’. The family of Ian Russell Bell-Hartley claim he suffered a broken back, ribs, toes and burns when another car smashed into his on the A45.The Birmingham dad, 58, was driving to work on December 13 when he was caught up in a police pursuit, reports CoventryLive. The incident allegedly saw another driver enter the wrong side of the carriageway, before smashing into Ian’s vehicle. The handyman’s injuries are said to be causing ‘huge financial pressures’ for his family…
A recent incident in the UK serves as a warning of the dangers that Britain’s censorious state poses to the right to free speech.Isabel-Vaughan-Spruce, a charity volunteer, was arrested and charged for a silent prayer “thought crime” near an abortion facility Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) released a video on Thursday showing police confronting Spruce, who was arrested for violating a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) after she was seen praying silently near an abortion facility four times in Kings Norton, Birmingham. Spruce, a longtime charity worker for vulnerable women and children, was praying in silence when police officers approached her…
Members of a Birmingham county lines drug gang who pushed heroin and crack cocaine into Stratford-upon-Avon have been jailed. Giovanni Cooper-Clarke and Kyden Williams-Parchment ran the Birmingham-based Rico Line which had established a “significant foothold” in the historic tourist town. Detectives infiltrated the line and gathered evidence of marketing messages sent out from the line to customers offering Class A drugs for sale. The Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) said those behind the chain had now been jailed for a combined 38 years. According to detectives – who worked alongside Warwickshire Police to identify the line – Cooper-Clarke and Williams-Parchment…
A sex offender discovered by police with a young girl in a hotel room after a tip-off from a member of the public has been jailed for nine years. Tahmid Majid, 24, was caught after he and another man were seen talking to the girl in a passageway near Grantham train station on June 26, 2022 and were trying to persuade her to go with them on a train to Manchester.A conversation about how the girl could earn large sums of money and would be given a house to live in was overheard and the witness called Lincolnshire Police. Officers…