What Started as a Small Act at School Meant Everything 12 Years Later
She sat two rows away from me in our fifth-grade classroom—always kind and bright, but strangely quiet at lunchtime. Each day, while lunchboxes opened around us, she would search her backpack a little too long and finally whisper, “My mom forgot again.” Most kids didn’t notice, but I did. That evening, I told my mom. … Read more