"He took up a lot of space. Moving around us. Weaving in and out of the aisles. Some ladies were annoyed. An old man behind us snickered and under his breath said, ‘hurry up.’"
Five months after the sudden death of his 20-year-old daughter, Abbey Conner, Bill made the decision to ride his bike across the country as a way to honor his baby girl’s short life.
"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.”
Slippers, not Oscars, are what get Denzel Washington out of bed in the morning. These slippers help him be a better father, husband, and actor, and no, they're not magical.
“I heard my daughter crying in her crib as I repeated over and over, ‘She will never remember me,’ and began a dialogue in to my husband's phone that I prayed she would never have to hear."
"We literally dread going to Walmart. Me and my husband were just staring at each other like is she serious? How could a woman who didn't even know us do this? I was really at a loss for words."
