Julia tells about a 9-year-old girl Galya, who lost her mother. On March 8, she wrote her a letter thanking her for her childhood and promising to behave well to meet her mother in paradise someday.
In light of the upcoming Mother's Day, I would like to share two deeply personal stories of two girls who lost their moms.
For the first girl, this story started on a sunny and frosty November day. She was 17 yo and attended a math class that morning, blissfully unaware that her world was just shattered into pieces when her mom died. This girl was me.
One day I might share more about that paralyzing feeling of losing someone so important and absolutely irreplaceable, how this was the hardest thing I've ever had to go through, and how that day separated my life into "before" and "after". But for now, I would like to share the story of the second girl with you.
Her name is Galya, and she was 9 when russians killed her mom in #Borodyanka, Kyiv region. Galya and I lost our moms differently, but the letter she wrote to her late mom as a present for the 8th of March resonated with me so much it could have been me writing these words.
And I'll ask you 2 things:
1. read Galya's letter to her mom
2. if you can, call/hug/kiss your mom or someone who's like a mom to you this Mother's day for all the children who can do it only in thoughts and dreams.
"To my Mother.
This letter is my gift for you for the 8th of March. If you think that you were bringing me up for no purpose, you are not right. Thank you for the best 9 years of my life! Thank you very much for my childhood.
You are the best Mother in the world. I will never forget you. I wish you to be happy in the sky! I wish you were able to make it to heaven! See you in heaven! I will try my best to behave well to get to heaven.
Kisses. Galya."
As of today, 223 children were killed, and 408 were injured, Ukraine's office of the general prosecutor reported. And those just confirmed cases, how many more children were killed and became orphans in occupied areas of Ukraine, we will only know, once they will be liberated from russians.
History from open sources.
