{"id":1569,"date":"2025-08-22T23:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2025-08-22T23:24:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:24:48","slug":"full-story-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"Full story&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>She came in and all I could do was stare. She didn\u2019t recognize me\u2014I guess I didn\u2019t expect her to. I wanted to say something, ask her why, but the words stuck in my throat. I watched her sign papers, talk to the attorney, and leave like it was just any other day. I stood there frozen, heart racing, wondering if she even thought about the baby she left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After she left, I sat in the break room for what felt like hours, trying to process everything. Part of me felt angry, part of me felt empty\u2026 and part of me still wanted answers. But I didn\u2019t go after her. Maybe I was scared of what she\u2019d say\u2014or worse, that she\u2019d say nothing at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever get closure. But that day reminded me how deep some wounds go\u2026 and how sometimes, healing doesn\u2019t come from others\u2014it comes from choosing to move forward, even without the answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She came in and all I could do was stare. She didn\u2019t recognize me\u2014I guess I didn\u2019t expect her to. I wanted to say something, ask her&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}