Something my mom taught me when I was little is that everything happens for a reason.
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time but when...
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army but I never called them...
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
