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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: On being a single mother: 4 of 7

They say that if you want to make God laugh- make a plan. Humph, I wonder if God still laughs when he thinks of me. Becoming a single mother was not part of my plan. To raise a child on my own was never, in my wildest dreams, a life that I prophesized or plotted out for myself. To have such a great responsibility was never a prayer that I offered up when I put my head on my pillow at night. When I was a teenager, and even in my early twenties, when I was figuring out what I was going to be when I grew up', a struggling, juggling, running everywhere single mother was not the life I was conc...
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