They gave me PR's, podiums, a job, and they helped me heal from my biggest loss.
. Lightweight and sleek, they are the kind of shoe people compliment you on as you board the Green Line after the Boston Marathon, despite the rest of you looking like leftover meatloaf in a space blanket. In the PureFlow I felt like I could fly. The shoe even helped me land my dream job. In myMy devotion started in early 2017, when the PureFlow 4 helped me take second place at the Ocala Marathon in Central Florida. That podium was the first in a series of amazing changes in my life.
Suddenly, cancer permeated my life. It was this ominous invader that tainted everything I did, draining my emotions and stealing my attention, even though I wasn’t the one who had it. One night, as my classmates were drinking beer, I paced outside the bar on my cell phone comforting my mom, telling her I was going to be all right. Another night, I found a carton of spoiled milk I’d absentmindedly left in the liquor cabinet after mixing a nightcap two days earlier.
Two days later—and less than two weeks after her diagnosis—my dad and I signed the form to take my mom off life support. All I could do was eat peanut butter Twix from the vending machine, cry in the bathroom, and pick the skin around my nails as I watched my mom die.
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