Jennifer Kerr
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Baltimore, Maryland
2007
About Me
Hi, I'm Jennifer. Thanks for stopping by. I heard you were coming so I put the kettle on. Sit down, put your feet up and enjoy some of this delicious herbal tea. I brewed it from herbs I grew myself, right here on the farm. I'm glad you came because I've got quite a story and I'm just dying to tell it!
Yeah, I know, it seems pretty remarkable...after all, who would believe that just twenty short years ago I was living in a park at the river? Sometimes, when I tell the story of meeting Governor Cuomo and Matilda, and the promise I made to them, I am overcome with gratitude. Sometimes, I just remember it and I start to cry. I wonder what my life would be like if that moment had never happened? I guess you know as well as I do that I'd probably be dead. I really didn't have much to live for, after all. But that was twenty years ago and just look at me now!
I've always dreamed of having a little farm of my own ... and a husband who loved me ... and my family back together again. I've always dreamed of finding a place where the memories didn't torment me and the nightmares couldn't find me. But I never really thought it would happen.
Well, it must have happened, because here I am, living on my own little farm, with my family back together and all my dreams are good ones. And they're coming true! It's that promise that kept me going, you know. And to think that there were times I almost gave up...times when it just seemed too hard to keep going ... but I had made the promise and I had to keep it ...
I think
law school may have been the hardest ... when I got sick that first
year and they found the brain tumor ... I didn't think I was going
to make it even one more day ... but all I kept thinking was "I
can't die yet, I haven't fulfilled the promise!" It took me six
years but what a feeling it
was to walk across the stage and get that diploma! And me just ten
days out of surgery!! Well, now, that's almost a story in itself,
isn't it? We'll just have to talk about that later.
Do you see that picture over there? Of all the things I have worked and fought so hard for these past twenty years, that is the single most precious belonging I have acquired in this life. It is a picture of all six of my children together again.
Remind me sometime to tell you the story of giving up Jason when he was a baby ... it was all I could, do, you know? I didn't know how to keep him safe ... and I nearly lost my life when his father found us and tried to kill us. I always knew I'd hold my baby in my arms again. It was one of the most wonderful days in my life when I got that late-night call.
"I think you're my mom."
Oh, here I go! Crying again! Well, you give me just a minute to get myself together ... here, let me refill that tea ... no, no ... you just sit right back down ... there's so much to tell...
Now, where should I start?
