Pushin' (2010)
“12 Pushin’ 3 Stretch Marks “I’ll always come back to you.”
—ISLEY BROTHERS Carrying water on my head like one of my African fore-mothers, I balance the clay jug expertly, holding the right side with my hand and placing my left arm out by my side, helping me still my heavy load. Reaching my destination—a small, one-room house—I open the curtained entry-way and place the jug down on the floor, rushing over to the woman lying on the bed straight ahead. There’s blood everywhere and she’s breathing ...hard and gripping the once white sheets with all her might.
“I can’t take it anymore. The baby’s never going to come,” the laboring woman says in tears. She looks scared and overwhelmed. I get closer to her, hoping that I can provide her with some comfort, recognizing the woman as Chance’s birth mother. The dream I had months ago of the day he was adopted was the beginning of my knowing his family secret.
“It’s time. Wet these towels to clean the baby when it comes,”MoreLess
—ISLEY BROTHERS Carrying water on my head like one of my African fore-mothers, I balance the clay jug expertly, holding the right side with my hand and placing my left arm out by my side, helping me still my heavy load. Reaching my destination—a small, one-room house—I open the curtained entry-way and place the jug down on the floor, rushing over to the woman lying on the bed straight ahead. There’s blood everywhere and she’s breathing ...hard and gripping the once white sheets with all her might.
“I can’t take it anymore. The baby’s never going to come,” the laboring woman says in tears. She looks scared and overwhelmed. I get closer to her, hoping that I can provide her with some comfort, recognizing the woman as Chance’s birth mother. The dream I had months ago of the day he was adopted was the beginning of my knowing his family secret.
“It’s time. Wet these towels to clean the baby when it comes,”MoreLess
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