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My daughter is a single Mom, with a 6 year old little boy. In the past 3 years, she had been planning to get married to her Son's Father, he was on his way to work @ 6:30 AM and was hit by a drunk driver. After 25+surgeries he is attempting to put his life back together. My daughter and grandson witnessed him being pulled from the tangled pile of metal. He was bloody and ashen gray, with critial injuries. Seven months later, her half sister @ 14 years old, was killed in a car accident. Five months later, I was permanently injured in a vehicle rollover crash. I was T-boned by a teenage driver and my vehicle flipped, crushing my head and pinning me in the vehicle. My daughter saw this and thought I was dead. A week after my accident, one of her cousins was killed in a motorcycle accident. She is still a single Mom, trying to deal with the tragedies in her life and be a good mother. I can only do so much. After the accident when Alan was hit by the drunk, they could no longer afford the house they had purchased together. She had moved from tiny apartment to tiny apartment, until my husband and I took out a loan and purchased a place that she could afford to make the payments on with the help of  a roommate. There are alot of single Mom's who need help. It takes a village to raise a child. Three years later, our grandson at 6 years old now, will still tell you about "the bad man, that hit daddy." God bless all the single Mom's out there, that try really hard to raise thier families.