All my life I’ve been taught to succeed and when I fail to dust myself off and try again. As a child, I grew up in a stable household with loving parents and a an older sister, however, things took a crazy turn on the night of September 11, 2005. I was a seven year old girl with a premeditated future and a bright smile that would radiate your whole day up shining like fireflies. It was a usual night everyone had gone to bed planning to wake up joyful for another day, though, that preceding day was supposed to be a big day for the whole family because my brother was coming to America after spending his whole life in Haiti. We stayed up late that night discussing how it would subsist when he came. Superb. Right? At 2:35AM, they received a phone call from a family member, predicting great news came the outcome of a tragic event.
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My mom remembers everything that was said in that phone call “Max .. there’s something wrong with Max.” She said she felt out of her body that night like a deep sleep as if you’re not going to wake up, then follows an abrupt pause as she tries to process what is being said. Envision you as a mother and someone informs you that your child is not all right anticipation seeping through your skin, the fear of something you don’t want to imagine. To this day my mother still gets chills exuding throughout her spine just thinking of the catastrophic incident and how she was feeling. That night my parents stayed up as family kept them updated while my sister and I were sleeping peacefully thinking we were going to have a family reunion the next
My mom remembers everything that was said in that phone call “Max .. there’s something wrong with Max.” She said she felt out of her body that night like a deep sleep as if you’re not going to wake up, then follows an abrupt pause as she tries to process what is being said. Envision you as a mother and someone informs you that your child is not all right anticipation seeping through your skin, the fear of something you don’t want to imagine. To this day my mother still gets chills exuding throughout her spine just thinking of the catastrophic incident and how she was feeling. That night my parents stayed up as family kept them updated while my sister and I were sleeping peacefully thinking we were going to have a family reunion the next