When You’re More Than 250 Pounds Overweight

Any and all success gets overshadowed by a single “failing.”

Shannon Ashley
Nov 3 · 6 min read
Image via Public Domain Pictures

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.

Shannon Ashley

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Single mama, fulltime writer, exvangelical. It's not about being flawless, it's about being honest. Top Writer. shannon.ashley.medium@gmail.com

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