"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 the girls began to cry, the adult handed them the brown paper wrappers that had been holding the chocolate peanut butter cups and forced them to eat the empty wrappers — a cruel way to give the girls a literal taste of what they were missing out on that Halloween evening."
"On a day-to-day basis, we're going over really serious, important issues with the families and it takes a toll on everybody. Being able to kind of step back from all of that and look at something that is just pure fun is a really wonderful opportunity."
In a tearful speech to mark the closing of a chapter in his life, Steve credits God with all that he’s been able to do, and the life he's gotten to live.
When these Dutch Bros Coffee workers saw that the woman in the drive-thru was "falling apart," they decided to extend their hands out to her car and pray for her.
The toxic saline solution that was meant to kill her before she was even born had not been successful in its pursuit. And at the tender age of 14, Melissa entered a downward spiral of soul-searching.
