"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
"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.”
"That’s when I heard it. 'F@*! this s*@t you nasty h$@!' And the words were flowing out of this mouth like a river…fast and furious. When I looked over, I saw a kid…probably about Gia’s age of 9…he was the one."
"Struggling with pregnancy is a taboo topic. Because the pain of infertility is so real and raw, it seems wildly insensitive to suggest that pregnancy is anything but a blessing."