The Worst Day
The fluorescent lights of Patterson’s Pharmacy hummed overhead with that particular frequency that seemed designed to make migraines worse. I’d been standing in line for forty-three minutes—I knew because I’d checked my phone obsessively, watching the minutes tick by while Emma screamed in my arms, her little body burning with fever, her face flushed an alarming shade of red that no first-time mother wants to see on her eight-month-old daughter.
Forty-three minutes to fill a prescription for antibiotics that the pediatrician had said Emma desperately needed. Forty-three minutes of bouncing, shushing, singing, pleading with my baby to please, please just hold on a little longer, Mommy’s getting your medicine, sweetheart, I promise, just a little longer.
But Emma was eight months old and sick and miserable, and she had no concept of “a little longer” or “please be patient” or any of the other desperate bargains exhausted mothers try to make with infants who operate on pure need and discomfort.
She screamed. And screamed. And screamed.
My name is Claire Morrison, and I’m twenty-six years old. Six months ago, I thought I understood what exhaustion meant—the kind that comes from working double shifts at the diner, from pulling all-nighters studying for nursing school exams, from staying up too late binge-watching shows I’d forget by morning.
I’d been adorably naive.
Real exhaustion, I’d learned, was the kind that seeped into your bones and made simple tasks feel like climbing mountains. It was going seventy-two hours on four total hours of sleep, spread across fifteen-minute increments between feedings and diaper changes and inexplicable crying jags. It was the kind of tired that made you cry while brushing your teeth because even that felt like too much.
And today—with Emma sick for the first time, with her fever spiking at 102 despite infant Tylenol, with her crying so hard she could barely catch her breath—I’d reached a level of exhaustion I didn’t know existed. The kind where you felt like you were moving through molasses, where every sound was too loud, where you wanted to curl up on the pharmacy floor and just give up.
“Excuse me.” The voice came from behind me, sharp and irritated. “Could you please do something about that baby? Some of us are trying to think.”
I turned to find a woman in her fifties, wearing a expensive-looking pantsuit and the kind of expression that suggested my crying child was a personal affront to her existence. Her perfectly styled hair hadn’t moved despite her dramatic sigh, and her manicured nails tapped against her designer purse with rhythmic impatience.
“I’m sorry,” I said, my voice coming out smaller than I intended. “She’s sick. I’m waiting for her medicine.”
“Well, couldn’t you wait outside until they call your name? The rest of us shouldn’t have to suffer because you can’t control your child.”
Control. As if Emma’s ear infection and 102-degree fever were behavioral problems I could simply discipline away. As if I hadn’t been trying everything I knew for the past hour to soothe her. As if this woman had never been a struggling mother or had conveniently forgotten what that felt like.
“The pharmacist said it would just be a few more minutes,” I explained, hearing the pleading note in my voice and hating it. “We’ve already been waiting so long, and I don’t want to lose our place in line.”
“Then maybe you should have come when you could ensure your child wouldn’t disturb everyone else,” another voice chimed in—a man this time, somewhere to my left, someone I was too exhausted to even turn and look at.
Emma’s screaming intensified, as if she could sense my distress and it was amplifying her own. I bounced her more vigorously, feeling my arms ache with the effort, feeling tears pricking at the corners of my eyes.
“I’m doing my best,” I whispered, not sure if I was talking to them or to myself or to Emma or to the universe in general.
“Your best is disrupting an entire pharmacy,” the woman in the pantsuit said, her voice carrying that particular upper-middle-class authority that had probably opened many doors for her and closed them for people like me. “Perhaps you should consider whether you’re ready to be a parent if you can’t handle a simple errand.”
The words hit like a slap. All the doubts I’d been harboring since Emma’s birth—am I doing this right, am I enough, what if I’m failing her—suddenly had validation from a stranger who knew nothing about me but felt entitled to judge everything.
I felt my face crumple, felt the tears I’d been fighting finally spill over. Through blurry vision, I saw other people in line turning away, unwilling to get involved, unwilling to defend a struggling mother against casual cruelty. One woman met my eyes briefly, sympathy flickering across her face, but she said nothing.
The pharmacist called from behind the counter, “Morrison? Emma Morrison?”
Finally. Finally. I pushed through the small crowd toward the counter, Emma still screaming against my shoulder, my own tears now flowing freely.
“That’ll be $127.50,” the pharmacist said, not meeting my eyes, clearly uncomfortable with the scene that had just unfolded.
I fumbled for my wallet with one hand while holding Emma with the other, nearly dropping both. My hands shook as I tried to pull out my credit card—the one that was already dangerously close to maxed out but what choice did I have when my baby needed medicine?
The card reader beeped. DECLINED.
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but your card was declined. Do you have another form of payment?”
The pharmacy went silent except for Emma’s crying. I could feel everyone watching, could feel their judgment pressing down on me like physical weight. The woman in the pantsuit made a disgusted sound.
“I… let me try again,” I said, my voice breaking. “Maybe I entered the PIN wrong.”
I tried again. DECLINED.
“I have cash,” I said desperately, digging through my purse with trembling hands. “Just give me a second.”
I counted what I had: $43 in crumpled bills and handful of change. Not even close to enough.
“I can come back,” I said, the words catching in my throat. “I’ll get money and come back. Just please hold the prescription, she really needs it, the doctor said—”
“Ma’am, we can’t hold controlled medications without payment,” the pharmacist said, not unkindly but firmly. “You’ll need to call your insurance company or come back with adequate payment.”
But Emma needed it now. Not later, not after I figured out which bill I could skip this month to free up money, not after I called the insurance company and spent two hours on hold while my daughter suffered.
Now.
I stood there holding my sick, screaming baby, out of money, out of options, out of dignity, while strangers stared and judged and found me wanting.
“This is ridiculous,” someone muttered.
“Some people shouldn’t have children if they can’t afford them,” the pantsuit woman said, not even bothering to lower her voice.
I turned and walked toward the door, Emma’s cries echoing off the walls, my own tears blurring my vision so badly I nearly ran into a display of cough drops. I just needed to get outside, needed to get to my car, needed to figure out what to do next even though my brain felt too fried to problem-solve anything.
The automatic doors slid open, and I stumbled into the parking lot, gasping for air that didn’t smell like industrial cleaning products and judgment.
And that’s when I heard it.
“Excuse me! Ma’am! Wait just a moment!”
The Unicorn
I turned, expecting another lecture, another person telling me what a failure I was as a mother. Instead, I saw the most surreal sight of my entire life.
A man—tall, probably six-foot-two, broad-shouldered and athletic-looking—was jogging toward me from across the parking lot. That alone wouldn’t have been unusual. What made it surreal was his outfit.
He was wearing a full-body pastel-blue unicorn onesie, complete with a sparkly horn on the hood, a rainbow mane, and a fluffy tail. The kind of costume you’d expect to see at a children’s birthday party or maybe a particularly enthusiastic Halloween celebration, not in a suburban pharmacy parking lot on a random Wednesday afternoon in March.
And he was carrying a gift bag with tissue paper sprouting from the top.
“I’m so sorry,” he said as he reached me, slightly out of breath. “I know this is going to sound strange, but I was picking up party supplies from the dollar store next door”—he gestured at the strip mall—”and I saw what happened through the window.”
Emma’s crying had reduced to hiccupping sobs, her attention caught by this impossible figure. She stared at the sparkly horn with wide, fever-bright eyes.
“I… what?” I managed, too overwhelmed to process this turn of events.
“The people in there were awful to you,” he said, his voice gentle despite the absurdity of his appearance. “And I know I look ridiculous right now—trust me, I’m aware—but I’m on my way to my nephew’s birthday party and I’m supposed to be ‘Sparkle the Magical Unicorn’ and I figured, well, maybe your little one might like to see a unicorn?”
He looked at Emma with such genuine kindness that I felt a fresh wave of tears threatening. But Emma, my poor sick baby who’d been crying for an hour, was now completely silent, one small hand reaching toward the sparkly horn with wonder.
“Hi there,” the unicorn man said, crouching down slightly so he was more at Emma’s eye level. “I heard you’re not feeling well. That’s no fun at all. But you know what? Unicorns have special powers. We can’t make fevers go away—that’s what medicine is for—but we can definitely make you smile. Want to see?”
He pulled a small, sparkly wand from somewhere in his onesie and waved it around, making exaggerated magical gestures that would have looked completely ridiculous under any other circumstances but somehow, in this moment, were exactly what Emma needed.
She giggled. Actually giggled. A small, hiccupping sound that was the most beautiful thing I’d heard all day.
“There it is,” the man said, his smile visible through the opening in his unicorn hood. “Magic. Works every time.”
“I don’t understand,” I said, my voice barely above a whisper. “Why would you…”
“Because you needed help, and I happened to be dressed like a magical creature,” he said simply. “Plus, I overheard that you were having trouble with the prescription payment. So I took the liberty of going back in there—and let me tell you, the looks I got were priceless—and I covered it for you.”
He held out a white pharmacy bag. Emma’s medicine.
“What? No. I can’t accept that. I don’t even know you.”
“You don’t have to know someone to help them,” he said. “Your daughter needs medicine. You were trying to get it for her. Someone made that harder than it needed to be, and now it’s easier. That’s all.”
“But it’s $127. That’s too much to just give to a stranger.”
“Consider it a gift from Sparkle the Magical Unicorn,” he said, his eyes crinkling with a smile. “We unicorns are notorious for random acts of kindness. It’s kind of our thing.”
Emma reached out again, this time managing to grab a piece of the rainbow mane. The man didn’t flinch, just stayed perfectly still while my daughter explored the fuzzy fabric with wonder.
“I’ll pay you back,” I said, though I had no idea how or when. “I promise. If you give me your information—”
“Nope. No paybacks. No information exchange. Just one human helping another human who happened to need help.” He paused. “Although, if it makes you feel better, you could promise to help someone else someday when they need it and you’re able to give it. Pay it forward, you know?”
I stood in that parking lot, holding my sick baby, accepting medicine from a stranger in a unicorn costume, and for the first time since Emma had spiked her fever eighteen hours ago, I felt something other than despair.
“Thank you,” I whispered. “I don’t know how to… thank you.”
“You just did.” He stood up, adjusting his unicorn hood. “I hope your little one feels better soon. And for what it’s worth? You’re doing a great job. Being a mom is hard. Being a mom with a sick kid is harder. And those people in there?” He gestured toward the pharmacy. “They forgot what it’s like to struggle. Don’t let them make you forget what it’s like to be strong.”
He started walking back toward his car—a practical Toyota Camry that looked hilariously normal next to his costume—then turned back.
“Oh, and one more thing.” He pulled a small stuffed unicorn from his gift bag. “For Emma. Every kid needs a magical friend.”
He set it in her hands, and she clutched it immediately, bringing it to her face with a soft coo.
Then Sparkle the Magical Unicorn got in his Camry and drove away, leaving me standing in the parking lot holding medicine I desperately needed and couldn’t have afforded, a stuffed unicorn, and the first real hope I’d felt in days.
The Follow-Up
Three days later, Emma’s fever had broken and she was back to her usual curious, babbling self, thanks to the antibiotics I’d been able to give her immediately instead of hours or days later after I’d figured out the money situation. I’d spent those three days thinking about the man in the unicorn costume, trying to figure out how to track him down and thank him properly, repay him somehow even though he’d explicitly said not to.
I’d posted on every local Facebook group I could find, describing what happened and asking if anyone knew who Sparkle the Magical Unicorn was in real life. I’d gotten a few responses—other mothers sharing their own pharmacy horror stories, some people praising the mystery unicorn, one person suggesting I was making it up for attention—but no actual leads.
So when my doorbell rang on Saturday afternoon and I opened it to find the same man from the parking lot—this time in jeans and a college sweatshirt, decidedly not wearing a unicorn costume—I actually gasped.
“Hi,” he said, looking slightly embarrassed. “I know this is weird, but I asked around at my nephew’s party—turns out one of the moms there knows you from a parenting group, and she gave me your address after I explained what happened. I hope that’s not too creepy? I just wanted to check that Emma was feeling better and to bring her this.”
He held out a wrapped package. Through the clear cellophane, I could see a larger stuffed unicorn, this one big enough for Emma to use as a pillow.
“You bought her another unicorn?” I asked, still processing that he was standing on my doorstep.
“Well, the little one I gave her was from my nephew’s party favors, so it’s not exactly high quality. I thought she might like something a bit more substantial.” He shifted his weight, suddenly looking uncertain. “Is this weird? This is weird. I’m sorry. I just wanted to make sure she was okay, and now I’m realizing this probably comes across as stalker-ish and I should go—”
“No!” I said quickly. “No, it’s not weird. Or, okay, maybe it’s a little weird, but in a good way? A nice way? Please come in. I owe you so much more than just a thank you.”
His name, I learned over coffee in my small kitchen while Emma played with her new unicorn in the living room, was Tom Richardson. He was twenty-eight, worked as a software engineer for a startup downtown, and had a reputation among his family and friends for his willingness to wear ridiculous costumes to children’s parties because “kids deserve adults who aren’t too cool to be silly.”
“My sister says I never grew up,” he explained with a self-deprecating smile. “She’s probably right. I have like six different costume onesies. Unicorn, dinosaur, dragon, giant teddy bear, a penguin, and a taco. The taco one is actually the most popular with the kids, surprisingly.”
“You dress up as a taco for children’s parties?”
“Look, childhood is short and the world is often disappointing. If I can be a magical taco for a few hours and make someone’s birthday party memorable, that seems like time well spent.”
I found myself laughing—actually laughing—for the first time in days. “That might be the most wholesome thing I’ve ever heard.”
“My dating profile would disagree. Apparently ‘dresses as food for fun’ isn’t as attractive to potential romantic partners as you’d think.”
We talked for two hours. He told me about his job, his family, his college years spent studying computer science while minoring in theater (“which my parents thought was a waste of time until I started getting paid to code AND getting to wear costumes”). I told him about Emma, about her father who’d left when I was six months pregnant, about my struggles to balance single parenthood with trying to finish my nursing degree, about the constant feeling that I was failing at everything.
“You’re not failing,” he said firmly. “You kept your daughter alive through her first serious illness despite a system designed to make that as difficult as possible. You’re pursuing an education while raising a baby alone. You’re paying bills and keeping a roof over her head. That’s not failing. That’s being a superhero, just without the cape and PR team.”
“I don’t feel like a superhero. I feel like I’m barely holding it together most days.”
“Most superheroes probably feel the same way. The difference between superheroes and regular people isn’t that superheroes don’t struggle. It’s that they keep going anyway.”
When he left that afternoon, he’d insisted on leaving his phone number. “In case Emma needs another unicorn emergency,” he said. “Or if you just need someone to talk to. Single parenting seems impossibly lonely.”
I’d expected that to be the end of it—a nice follow-up to a kind gesture, a pleasant afternoon conversation, maybe an occasional text. Instead, it was the beginning of something I hadn’t dared to hope for.
Building Something Real
Tom showed up again three days later with groceries. “I was at the store anyway,” he said, which we both knew was a lie. “And I picked up a few things and realized I’d way over-bought, as usual, and rather than let them go to waste…”
The bags contained exactly the things a mother with a baby would need: diapers, formula, baby food, fresh vegetables, and—suspiciously specific—the particular brand of coffee I’d mentioned preferring during his last visit.
“Tom, you can’t just keep giving me things.”
“I’m not. I’m dropping off stuff I over-bought. Totally different.” He started unpacking groceries with the ease of someone who’d done this before. “Also, I’m a terrible cook and I bought ingredients for meals I don’t actually know how to make, so really, you’d be doing me a favor by taking them.”
He came back the following weekend and somehow ended up staying for dinner—frozen pizza because I hadn’t had time to actually cook—and then helping me assemble a bookshelf I’d bought from IKEA two months ago and hadn’t had the energy or focus to put together.
“You don’t have to do this,” I told him for the hundredth time as he sorted through tiny screws and confusing diagrams.
“I know. But it’s Saturday night and my alternative entertainment options are watching my neighbor’s cat through the window or organizing my sock drawer by color intensity. This is much more interesting.”
“You really need to get a more exciting life.”
“My life is plenty exciting. Last week I dressed as a magical taco for a four-year-old’s birthday party and made balloon animals that mostly looked like weird blobs. The excitement never stops.”
Emma adored him. By his fourth visit, she would light up when he arrived, crawling toward him with enthusiastic squeals, reaching for him with the complete trust that babies have for people who’ve proven themselves safe and fun. Tom would scoop her up, make ridiculous faces that sent her into giggles, and narrate everything he did in silly voices that made even routine activities like changing diapers entertaining.
“Why are you doing all this?” I finally asked one evening after he’d helped give Emma her bath, read her three bedtime stories in different character voices, and was now helping me clean up the disaster zone that was my living room.
He paused, holding a toy xylophone, and looked at me with an expression that was part vulnerable, part hopeful. “Honestly? Because I like you. Both of you. I like the way Emma laughs when I make that weird whistling sound. I like the way you get this little crease between your eyebrows when you’re concentrating on something. I like that you’re working so hard to build a good life for your daughter despite a thousand obstacles. I like being here, being helpful, being part of your lives.”
“But I come with so much baggage. A baby. No money. A crazy schedule. An ex who might eventually show up and cause problems. You could be dating someone without all these complications.”
“I don’t want someone without complications. I want you. Complications and all. If you want me, that is. No pressure. If you just want me as your friendly neighborhood unicorn costume enthusiast who helps with random tasks, I can do that too. But I wanted you to know that I’m interested in more. If you are.”
I stood in my messy living room, holding a stuffed animal, looking at a man who’d shown up in my life wearing a ridiculous costume and had somehow become the most consistent, kind, supportive presence Emma and I had.
“I’m interested in more,” I said softly. “But I’m scared. What if this doesn’t work out? What if Emma gets attached and then you leave? What if—”
“What if it does work out?” he interrupted gently. “What if this is the beginning of something really good? You can’t protect yourself and Emma from every potential hurt by never letting anyone in. Sometimes you have to take the risk.”
“You’re right. It’s just… the last person I trusted with my heart left me pregnant and alone.”
“I’m not him. I’m the guy who wore a sparkly unicorn costume to make your daughter smile. I’m the guy who watches cat videos at two AM because they make me happy. I’m the guy who thinks being silly for kids is more important than looking cool. I’m not perfect, but I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere unless you want me to.”
I thought about Emma’s giggles when Tom arrived. I thought about how much easier life had been with someone to share the load, even just a little. I thought about how lonely I’d been for so long, convinced that this was just my life now—single parenting, struggling, surviving but never quite thriving.
“Okay,” I said. “Let’s try more. But if you ever hurt Emma—”
“If I ever hurt Emma, you have my full permission to make me wear the taco costume to a professional meeting,” he said solemnly. “Nothing is more humiliating than explaining to your boss why you’re dressed as a taco.”
I laughed, and then somehow we were hugging, and his arms around me felt solid and safe and like maybe, just maybe, things were going to be okay.
A Year Later
Emma’s second birthday party was held in our backyard—the backyard of the house Tom and I had moved into together six months ago, with enough space for Emma to run and play, with a small garden where we were attempting to grow vegetables with mixed success, with a porch swing where we sat in the evenings after Emma went to bed and talked about our days.
The party had a unicorn theme, naturally. Tom had insisted, and I’d learned that arguing with him about whimsical party themes was a losing battle.
He stood in the middle of the yard wearing his now-famous pastel-blue unicorn onesie, surrounded by a dozen toddlers who thought he was the most magical thing they’d ever seen. Emma, wearing a sparkly unicorn headband and a dress with rainbows, kept running up to him and hugging his legs, squealing “Unnie! Unnie!” which was her word for unicorn.
My mother stood next to me, watching the scene with a smile. “That man is completely ridiculous,” she said.
“I know.”
“And he’s clearly head-over-heels in love with you and Emma.”
“I know.”
“And you’re going to marry him, aren’t you?”
I watched Tom pick Emma up and spin her around gently while she shrieked with laughter. I watched him interact with each child at the party with the same patient kindness, making sure no one felt left out. I watched him catch my eye across the yard and smile, and I felt that familiar warmth spread through my chest—the feeling that had been growing steadily over the past year, the certainty that this was what love was supposed to feel like.
“Yeah,” I said. “I think I am.”
“Good. I was worried after Emma’s father left that you’d close yourself off, convince yourself that you and Emma were better off alone. I’m glad you found someone who proved that wrong.”
“I didn’t find him, actually. He found me. In a pharmacy parking lot. Wearing that costume.”
My mother laughed. “Only you would find your soulmate dressed as a magical unicorn.”
But that’s exactly what had happened. On the worst day of my early motherhood, when I’d been at my lowest, when cruel strangers had made me feel worthless, when I’d run out of money and options and hope—that’s when Tom had appeared, absurd and kind and exactly what Emma and I had needed.
Later, after the party wound down and the last guests left, after we’d cleaned up cake crumbs and deflated balloons, after we’d given Emma her bath and put her to bed surrounded by her growing collection of unicorn toys, Tom and I sat on the porch swing, exhausted but content.
“Thank you,” I said, leaning against his shoulder.
“For the party? Emma deserved a good birthday.”
“Not just for the party. For everything. For showing up when I needed help. For continuing to show up, every day, in a thousand small ways. For loving Emma like she’s yours. For being patient with me while I learned to trust again. For being ridiculous and kind and everything I didn’t know I needed.”
He wrapped his arm around me, pulling me closer. “You know what’s funny? I almost didn’t stop that day at the pharmacy. I was running late for my nephew’s party, and I told myself it wasn’t my business, that you probably wouldn’t want help from a stranger in a unicorn costume. But then I thought, what’s the worst that could happen? You’d tell me to go away? And what’s the best that could happen? I might make a baby smile for a minute. Seemed worth the risk.”
“Best that could happen was you’d meet the love of your life and her daughter,” I corrected.
“That wasn’t even on my radar of possible outcomes, but you’re right—it was definitely the best possible result.”
We sat in comfortable silence, the sound of crickets and distant traffic filling the warm summer air. Inside, Emma slept peacefully, secure in her home, loved beyond measure by two people who would move heaven and earth to protect her.
“I need to tell you something,” Tom said suddenly, his voice taking on a nervous quality.
My stomach dropped. Here it was—the moment where everything changed, where he told me this was too much, too hard, that he was leaving.
“Okay,” I said, bracing myself.
He shifted, pulling something from his pocket. A small velvet box.
“I know we’ve only been together officially for a year. I know that’s probably too soon by normal relationship standards. But nothing about us has been normal, and I don’t want to wait when I’m completely certain about what I want.”
He opened the box, revealing a simple but beautiful ring—silver with a small diamond, nothing ostentatious but perfect in its understated elegance.
“Claire Morrison, will you marry me? Will you let me be Emma’s dad, not just the guy who shows up in costume and makes her laugh? Will you build a life with me—a life full of silly costumes and terrible puns and midnight feedings and terrible attempts at gardening and everything else that makes life messy and beautiful and real?”
I was crying—happy tears this time, not the desperate tears I’d shed in that pharmacy parking lot two years ago. “Yes. God, yes. To all of it.”
He slid the ring onto my finger, and it fit perfectly, like it had been waiting there all along.
“I have a confession,” he said. “I bought this three months ago. I’ve been carrying it around, waiting for the right moment, and today—watching you smile while Emma destroyed that cake, seeing how happy you both were—it felt right.”
“You’ve been walking around with an engagement ring for three months?”
“In my defense, I almost proposed at least six times. There was the time we successfully assembled that bookshelf without arguing. The time Emma took her first steps toward me. The time you fell asleep on the couch and drooled on my shoulder and somehow it was the most adorable thing I’d ever seen. The time we—”
I kissed him, cutting off his list, tasting salt from happy tears and frosting from Emma’s birthday cake.
When we finally pulled apart, he was grinning. “So, should I wear the unicorn costume to the wedding, or is that taking the theme too far?”
“Definitely too far.”
“What about just the horn? As a boutonniere?”
“Tom.”
“Fine, fine. I’ll wear a boring normal tuxedo. But I’m wearing unicorn socks under the pants. That’s non-negotiable.”
“Deal.”
We sat on that porch swing until late into the night, making ridiculous plans and serious promises, talking about a future that two years ago I hadn’t believed was possible. Emma slept peacefully inside, surrounded by unicorns, loved by a mother who’d learned that asking for help wasn’t weakness and by a man who’d shown up in the strangest way possible and stayed for all the right reasons.
Sometimes I still think about that day at the pharmacy—the exhaustion, the judgment, the moment I’d felt most alone. But I don’t think about it with pain anymore. I think about it with gratitude, because that terrible day led to the best thing that ever happened to me.
Love doesn’t always arrive in expected packages. Sometimes it shows up in a sparkly unicorn onesie, holding medicine you desperately need, offering kindness when the world has shown you cruelty.
And sometimes, if you’re very lucky, that ridiculous man in a costume turns out to be exactly what you and your daughter needed all along—someone who chooses to show up, who stays, who loves you through the messy and difficult and beautiful chaos of real life.
The unicorn in aisle three wasn’t just a kind stranger. He was my future, showing up exactly when I needed him most, reminding me that magic isn’t just for fairy tales.
Sometimes it’s real. Sometimes it happens in pharmacy parking lots. Sometimes it’s wearing a costume and carrying stuffed animals and refusing to let you give up on yourself.
And sometimes, it stays.
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