When Larissa met Ian at college in 2005, she never dreamed she'd one day be his wife ... and his caretaker. After a tragic accident left Ian without the ability to speak, walk or care for himself, she did what any woman in love would do: she married him.
"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.”
"When you hear your wife screaming from upstairs saying she has had an accident you run up the stairs... When you get to your bathroom and hear her laughing, you have to pull your cell phone out because you know this is going to be funny."
"I ran out of my new house in my new neighborhood in my underwear, set off the alarm & called the police.... literally no bra, no shoes, no pants.. a dog in one arm and a gun in the other... making a mad dash across my yard to get to my car."
"Jenn Thelen woke up yesterday to the sound of her 7-year-old daughter, Aubrie, screaming. Their dog, Zoey, had gotten the family’s Elf on the Shelf, Sam."
