A mother and daughter's heart-to-heart talk about their unbreakable bond
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🗓️ 12 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally tonight for Mother's Day, an animated story from our partners at StoryCorps. |
| 0:06.0 | Yomi Young was born with a rare genetic disorder that causes her bones to break under the slightest pressure. |
| 0:12.0 | She and her mother, Sarah Sarah Churchill talks about the day she was born. |
| 0:16.0 | Your skull was fractured, your arms, your ribs, your legs, and they said that you would probably die during the night. |
| 0:25.0 | So the best thing would be to leave you at the hospital. |
| 0:29.0 | But there was no way that I was going to leave you there. |
| 0:32.0 | And they had a rocking chair and I would sit there and hold you. And I remember our hearts touched each other. I used to always say, we have one heart, you and I. |
| 0:46.0 | So what was it like caring for me throughout the years? Well, I remember giving you a bath, |
| 0:51.0 | and you turned your arm arm and I heard it. |
| 0:54.0 | The bone snap? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. And you were crying, I'm crying. |
| 0:57.0 | I used to keep track of my fractures, but then they just got out of control. |
| 1:01.0 | I would fall. |
| 1:02.0 | Or I remember one time one of my sisters dropped an orange on me and that broke something. I mean you can look at me too hard and I would break. So I have my down periods but I don't always have to articulate every single thing because you get it. You understand. |
| 1:19.0 | You know, one of my regrets is that I didn't have my own children. |
| 1:22.0 | And I think one of the biggest... my regrets is that I didn't have my own children. |
| 1:23.1 | And I think one of the biggest desires were wanting to mother is to be able to carry on this legacy |
| 1:29.3 | of love that you started with me. You tell me often that you believe I picked you. I think children come as a |
| 1:38.4 | gift to their parent. I don't know if I've ever told you this but I also feel like you picked me. |
| 1:43.7 | If you had walked away and left me there when I was born, |
| 1:47.3 | nobody would have looked askance. |
| 1:49.7 | But I felt that you were a part of me. |
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