@venusmorrisgriffin: A headline can tell you what happened. It cannot tell you what it took to live through it. The headline was that my husband had been sentenced to 45 years in prison. What it could not show was the drive home from the courthouse. It could not show me gathering my six children on the living room floor and promising them that I would take care of them. It could not show the fear of being hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt or the weight of knowing that six children were looking to me for every answer. It did not show the six o’clock dinners, seven o’clock Mass, open houses, unpaid bills, or mornings when getting out of bed felt almost impossible. Years later, Humans of New York shared my story with the world. But even those posts could hold only part of it. Headlines capture moments. Lives are built in the quiet days between them. The Other Side of Perfect is the story behind the headlines. It tells not only what happened, but what it took to keep going. 🤍

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