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People often wonder how she manages to keep her sanity in check with all the responsibilities weighing her down. People were always gossiping about her, they always want to know what happens in her life, very few minded their
business.
“ I tell you bro, she's not human !!. she drove her husband away with her bad luck said one of her neighbors.
“ How is she able to cope without the help of any man ??. She needs a man in her life another added.
Mary didn't have time to sit and think about all the gossips and accusations leveled against her especially not this morning.
Mary, a middle aged lady with exceptional beauty that was soon fading away with all the responsibilities and burden of being a single mom weighing her
down.Her lovely brown eyes were now encircled with dark circles, her long black thick hair was cut short due to lackage of time to tend for it.
She got up earlier than usual prepared snacks and drinks, prepared her
children and took them to the park to have some fun as it was children's day. She sat down in one of the benches and watched her children play, other kids were in the park too, some with their nannies, other with their parents. A young couple caught her attention, she watched as they played with their toddler, looking at each other with so much love. She recalled her teenage days
with her first love, John. She recalled all the events that had happened in her life.John was the first and only man in her life, she dated him for four years before he impregnated her and they got married. That was the happiest moment of her life, little did she know that her happy life was about to turn to a sorrowful one .
John left her when she was pregnant with their third child, he claimed that having three children was too much for him to handle.She recalled how he reacted when she broke the news about her third pregnancy to him.
“ You're pregnant again ?? He asked with a deep frown on his face.
“ Yes i am, is there any problem ?
“ We can barely fend for those two and now you're expecting a third one. Don't you pity me at all, am too young to handle all these responsibilities, i have dreams and goals i want to achieve”.
His words pierced her heart badly
“What about me ?? I have dreams and aspirations too, you got me pregnant now you're complaining, i have to go through through the pain of giving birth and not you ”. She thought to herself.
They argued for a while before John left for his work and never came back. He sent a letter to her few weeks later saying that he was too young to undergo so much stress from marriage and he wasn't ready to divorce her because he couldn't afford child support fees.
“ Unbelievable !!!! How could he do this to her ?? That was the last time she heard from him and it's been over four years now. She received very little support from her husbands family, her mom and only family died shortly after she gave birth.
Sometimes she was puzzled on how she was able to battle depression and stay focused on her job and children.
“ No one should ever experience what I have been through, NO ONE!!! ”. She thought to herself as she fought back the tears piling up in her eyes .
“Mommy, mommy !!, come push me in this swing ”. Said her second child.
She looked in the direction of the voice and a new ray of hope and energy summoned in her.
She smiled and got up to play with her children.