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Hope & Kindness · fiction

Being Here Was Enough

The six-year-old son of my housekeeper found me crying alone in my wheelchair and asked the one question every adult around me had been too afraid to ask. “Mr. Ethan… why are you so sad?” I had spent the better part of twenty years making sure nobody ever saw me weak. That morning, a child destroyed the...

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Genre
Hope & Kindness
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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