Last night, as I was just getting ready for an early night I had a call from my friends Marlon and Melodie. Melodie runs a children's home here (she's Canadian but raised in Spain). Anyway, they were just heading out of town..Marlon giving a ride to Melo or something and they had got a call from a girl who was coming to the Children's Home with her baby, and had arrived early. I say early, meaning a day early. So they called me to go and collect her and find her a hotel for the night as they were out of town.
It was about 9pm and she was down town alone with her baby (of about 1 yr). The girl could not have been more than 18 herself and was here to deliver her baby to the home. It was heart breaking to see cos she clearly loved this gorgeous little girl a lot, but the baby's father had wanted a boy not a girl and there in followed a lot of neglect and abuse. I can't tell any more than that. But you could see in the girl's face how hard it was going to be to give her baby away. Yet knowing it was the only option.
That is the sad reality of life.
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