When her husband died, Linda didn’t want to raise her 3-year-old stepson, Lucas, so she left him at the local church and disappeared from his life. Fifteen years later, Linda showed up asking for forgiveness, but he only had a few words to say to her.Lucas could barely remember his life before living in St. Mary’s Church in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He had a vague recollection of his father and mother, but it was just a few images. His real memories began later when the nuns of the church raised him.They told him that a woman had dropped him off…
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A husband abandoned his wife and kids shortly after an accident, but a few years later, he ran into her in a park. The former couple now had new lives, and the husband felt bad seeing his ex-wife with another man.Amelia Raymonds was a very pretty girl who had it great from her childhood. She was from a middle-class family, and they cherished formal education. While growing up, she excelled in class, which made her family proud.Things were not bad for the straight A-student as a senior high school student or college student. She had a charming personality and good…
She lived in a dead marriage, and clung to a job she hated until the doctor gave her the terrifying diagnosis: she had only one year to live.Clara Daniels pressed her palms against her eyes. She could feel another one of those horrific nauseating headaches coming on again. She’d already been to the doctor about it and he had ordered a battery of tests and a CAT scan.Her mother told her that it was all in her head, and her best friend Gail told her it was the constant stress she lived under. Clara thought it was her unhappiness somehow…
A millionaire inadvertently discovers he is a father after he meets a homeless girl on the street, who begs him for some pennies to feed herself and her mother. “Congratulations Miss Carolyn, you’re 4 months pregnant!” a chubby doctor with squinty eyes exclaimed excitedly as she revealed the results of the test the younger woman had come in for. The doctor, whose name tag identified her as Dr. Melissa Foster, expected Carolyn to react with equal excitement at the news, but instead, the woman looked worried. “Is anything wrong?” Melissa asked. “Nothing doctor, it’s just, I’m no longer with him,”…
At 42, Simon had an incredibly successful career but no family. He worried that adoption agencies wouldn’t let him become a parent alone. But one day, someone left a basket with a baby girl on his doorstep, and he decided to raise her. Years later, the girl’s mother showed up, and Simon couldn’t believe who she was.Simon Reid was a workaholic from Santa Barbara, California. He built his tech company from scratch, and it became one of the most renowned in the country. However, he soon realized that being so focused on a career left him no time to date…
Many gun owners say they need military-style weapons to defend themselves against ‘government overreach’President Joe Biden arrives with Vice President Kamala Harris to lay a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022, in Arlington, Va. President Joe Biden arrives with Vice President Kamala Harris to lay a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022, in Arlington, Va. Gun activists who claim they need the type of weapons used in a pair of deadly mass shootings earlier…
Everyone who knew Martha ignored her because of what they’d been told about her, but her lonely fate changed one day when a little boy approached her.Martha was unusual. She knew it, and so did everyone who lived in the quaint little town she moved to after losing her life savings to a con artist. When she first arrived in town, Martha avoided any attempt to socialize with the townspeople, and eventually, they took the cue and stopped trying to be friendly with her. “She’s such a snob,” they would whisper behind her back while she pretended not to hear.…
A man is stunned to discover that the little blind girl he rescued was his father’s child from a second marriage to a woman he hated for breaking up his family.Adam looked down at the little girl’s delicate face turned up to his trustingly, the tiny hand in his, and felt a wave of hate that threatened to overcome him. “Your dad is the man with the dog?” he snarled. “THAT’S your father?””Yes,” the girl smiled. “I can’t see much at all, and Fluffy is my seeing-eye dog…”Adam abruptly dropped the girl’s hand and shoved her roughly towards the anxious-looking…
After Ethan Jenkins’s death, his widow, Myra, discovered that his entire estate would go to his newest business partner, Carl Ferguson, so she was forced to live in a dirty, old trailer. But their kids would not let the matter go, and they found out something shocking.”My deepest condolences, Myra,” Carl Ferguson told Myra at her husband, Ethan Jenkins’ funeral.His death was felt through the community in their town in Oregon. He was the founder of a major clothing store, although it started as a small business many decades ago.He met Myra when she came looking for a job as…
New video shows police response to deadly Texas school shootingThe gunman was inside the school for 77 minutes before law enforcement breached the locked door with a key and killed the shooter.ABC News When gunfire rang out at Robb Elementary School Tuesday, 9-year-old Daniel Garza said his teacher, Elsa Avila, ran to the door to lock their classroom, which was near the rooms where 19 students and two teachers were killed. Avila was shot through the glass and dropped to the floor, Daniel told ABC News, but she still told her students to stay quiet and said she was playing…