A photo of Gabriel Rollins

Gabriel Rollins


Louisville, Kentucky, USA

My mother is the closest thing I’ve experienced to God’s love besides God. It wasn’t hard for her to love, but it was hard for her to do it all. It’s hard to work two or three jobs and then take your kid to Universal Studios, and have to work online in the hotel while he’s sleeping, be ready to go to the amusement park in the morning, and to be able to run around and do all these different things. She told me, she said, “That’s what love looks like.”


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