![]() ![]() Despite the extra needed protection for your pets, she loves the mountains she calls home. Michelle is from a small town in Eastern Kentucky where possums try to blend in with the cats on the porch and bears are likely to chase your pets-this is very true, it happened with her sister’s dog. His strange acts of kindness are unraveling me. I build an unlikely friendship with him which deems it necessary for him to start smiling around me and my kids. ![]() Turns out, Judgmental Guy isn’t too mean - okay, he kind of still is. Judgmental Guy decides Lucy and me - as well as baby Eli - are worth his friendship. ![]() Then something happens, I’m not even sure what. He judges my very round belly, Lucy’s inability to leave him alone, the bags under my eyes, and the fact that I could not care less what I look like anymore. ![]() He doesn’t know me, but he’s already painting a picture of who he thinks I am in his mind. His cold, blunt observation of us doesn’t differ from any other stranger. I’m too busy most days between parenting, work, and finishing up my last year of nursing school to let their judging gaze tear me down until he moves in the vacant house next to the apartments I live in. I mean, why else would someone have a child so young, right? They couldn’t be more wrong. They see Lucy on my hip, and they see a mistake. ![]()
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