“When I was married to my now ex-husband, Duke, we struggled to have children. I had three ectopic pregnancies and we tried in vitro three times after that. By the time we got through all of that, I was nearly ready for the cuckoo bin! It was all just too much. But back then, newspapers actually had ads in them, and there was a little ad in the Washington Post that I happened to come across, which I still have to this day. It was advertising an information session for the International Children’s Alliance at the Vienna Public Library. I decided to go. And that changed the course of my life forever.”
“I picked the song ‘Memories’ from Maroon 5. The lyrics talk about loving people and missing people who are no longer in our lives. Unfortunately for our family, Will took what he thought was a Xanax and it was pure fentanyl. He had just texted me ‘Goodnight Mom,’ he took the pill, and he died instantly. We keep his picture right on the counter in our family room because we miss him so so much.
