What a beautiful, beautiful article:
I’m telling you that the best decision I ever made was keeping that baby! Yes, absolutely. Guy was a delight from the start — so good, so bright, and I can’t imagine my life without him.
I struggled, sure. We lived hand-to-mouth, but it was really heart-to-hand. Guy had love and laughter and a lot of good reading and poetry as a child. Having my son brought out the best in me and enlarged my life. Whatever he missed, he himself is a great father today. He was once asked what it was like growing up in Maya Angelou’s shadow, and he said, “I always thought I was in her light.”
Years later, when I was married, I wanted to have more children, but I couldn’t conceive. Isn’t it wonderful that I had a child at 16? Praise God!”








Truly. We need to hear more stories like that.
She was for a lot of things including Life. In the 1990’s she and the likes of the Dalai Lama, Martin Sheen, the Berrigan Brothers, Sargent Shriver and many more signed a Declaration on the ‘protection of life which is threatened by war, abortion, poverty, racism, the arms race, the death penalty and euthanasia’. I didn’t see that CBC picked up on this.