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At first, I thought she was just being diligent about school\u2014early study sessions, extra-credit work, maybe even a secret morning workout. I was proud of her discipline. She always left the house before I even had my coffee.<\/p>\n
But a few days ago, I got a call from the school. I was confused. She left for school like clockwork. I asked her about it, and she shrugged it off\u2014said it was a mix-up, and that she\u2019d sort it out.<\/p>\n But the next morning\u2026 I followed her.<\/p>\n She didn\u2019t go to school.<\/p>\n She walked straight to the nursing home five blocks away.<\/p>\n When I got there and peeked through the window, I saw her sitting beside an old woman in a wheelchair\u2014feeding her oatmeal and brushing her hair.<\/p>\n That woman was my mother. Emily\u2019s grandmother.<\/p>\n The same woman I hadn\u2019t spoken to in over ten years after a falling-out that left us both heartbroken.<\/p>\n Emily never told me they\u2019d found each other. She just showed up. I\u2019ve never been more heartbroken\u2026 At first, I thought she was just being diligent about school\u2014early study sessions, extra-credit work, maybe even a secret morning workout. I was proud of her discipline. She always left the house before I even had my coffee. But a few days ago, I got a call from the school.They were concerned because Emily hadn\u2019t …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
They were concerned because Emily hadn\u2019t attended first period<\/em> in over two months.<\/p>\n
Every morning. Rain or shine.<\/p>\n
She never told me she forgave what I couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Every morning. Quietly. Lovingly.<\/p>\n
Or more proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"