I Helped a Young Mom with Her Baby in a Grocery Store – Three Days Later, a Large Black SUV Was Parked Right Outside My House

I rebuilt.

Smaller house. More work. Learned how to fix things with YouTube and stubbornness.

Eventually, life got… functional.

Not great. Not glamorous. Just steady.

The afternoon when everything changed, I had spent six hours editing a security guide.

By the time I shut my laptop, my neck hurt, my eyes were burning, and my brain felt overcooked.

I stopped at the grocery store on the way home.

Simple mission: pasta, sauce, something green so I could pretend we eat vegetables.

I parked, grabbed a basket, and walked in on autopilot.

The store was its usual mix of humming lights, beeping scanners, and bad music. I drifted to the canned goods aisle and stared at different brands of tomato sauce like there was a wrong answer.

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