"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon and former agnostic, suffered a rare and severe case of streptococcal meningitis which caused his brain to flatline. Dr. Alexander made a miraculous recovery and says the experience taught him to “realize that our souls are eternal.”
The manager calls me saying they didn’t get a chance to refund the soup that night, and they wanted to do it today. ‘Could you please re-tell me your card number?’
Right before I was about to be married I was asked the question, “Are you prepared for what you and your family will experience seeing as how you are marrying a black man?” I was totally offended. But I had NO IDEA.
"So many people questioned, ‘Why didn’t anyone know?’ In reality, everyone knew. No one hid it." The school did NOTHING. The bullies' parents did NOTHING.
"As we walked I looked to see the faces turn to watch her. Other women looked at her in a disapproving ways, men looked at her and then me as if knowing what was going on."
