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chickensoupleg · 1 year ago

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I put myself into a wee bit of undue stress so... Writing it off.

Every Tuesday morning Chrissy jogged around the block. It was good cardio, and Chrissy enjoying the peace of the morning when no one else was awake.

She had assumed her usual gear: A sport top, her favourite jogging sweats, pink sneakers she got as a gift from Robin, and her lucky scrunchie. She carried a water bottle with her as well, even though she didn't necessarily need it most of the time. Her jogs were fairly short, Chrissy still fit enough that a block wouldn't kill her just yet.

The sound of crying catches her ear as she turns the second corner. She slows down, head turning in an attempt to locate the sound. It sounded close by, but she saw nobody else out.

Her attention goes to a small alleyway, Chrissy walking closer to look into the darkness. It was still illuminated by the alley lights at this hour, leaving her view of the large trash containers and empty boxes set in the crevice.

There was something decidedly less a product of human consumption, curled up atop one of the boxes.

"Are you lost?" Chrissy asks. The kid jerks their head up, eyes rimmed in red clear as day despite the poor lighting.

The kid sniffles, not answering. Chrissy looks around, but the streets are empty.

She takes a step into the alleyway towards the kid, slow as to not stress the kid out. "It's okay, you're okay. You must be scared to death out here!"

The kid chokes on another sob, and oh does it pull at Chrissy's little heartstrings. She pulls the blue water bottle from her belt, extending it towards the kid. "Here, you must be thirsty!"

The kid sniffles loud, rubbing furiously at his eyes. It's a boy, Chrissy realises up close. She still holds the bottle out to him, waiting. The boy eventually grabs at the bottle, sucking at the nozzle on the top furiously, breathing hard and wet. Chrissy doesn't have a napkin for him, but she wishes she did.

"Th-Thank you..." The boy sputters after a few hearty, long gulps.

"It's no problem! Are you lost?" Chrissy asks again.

The boy sniffs, wiping at his nose with his shirt. "My- My dad told me to stay here."

Chrissy looks at the green door that led into the building the boy's back was facing. "Is he inside? Then why are you crying out here, sweetie?"

She regrets asking when the boy whines, Chrissy rubbing his shoulder gently.

"N-No. He's not-" The boy hiccups. "He left."

Chrissy makes a confused face, wondering what he meant.

It clicks a moment later. "Your dad- He wouldn't-" Chrissy can barely finish her sentence. "He left you here?"

The boy nods, and Chrissy pulls him into a hug, the boy clinging to her despite her being an effective stranger. The kid didn't look much older than 6, maybe 5. It's far too early, and this kid was abandoned in an alleyway. Or maybe just on the streets and he wandered in here to cry his little heart out.

Regardless, Chrissy wasn't about to leave him. "Where's your mum?"

The boy sniffs. "Gone."

Chrissy nods. "Come on, I'll take you to the police station. How does that sound? Can I pick you up?"

The boy nods, Chrissy lifting the boy up with ease with her hands tucked under his bottom. The child wraps his arms around her neck, burying his face in the crook of her neck, and Chrissy can't help but melt. Just a little.

She walks home first, if only to get to Heather and Robin. As much as she would like to walk all the way to the station, it was still a bit far for her, especially with a child in tow.

The boy remains still in her arms, likely tired from all the crying and how early it was. She unlocks the door and steps inside the quaint apartment she shared with Heather and Robin and sets down the boy.

"I need to wake up my friend, can you wait a little?"

The boy nods, Chrissy pulling off her sneakers and walking across the room to get to the bedrooms on the opposite end.

She goes into Heather's room, knocking before entering. Heather was nice and comfortable in bed.

Not for long, Chrissy yanking the blanket off. Heather stirs with an irritated groan, Robin curled up like a fetus against Heather's side. She groans as well, lifting her head.

"Chris...?" Robin mumbles, Chrissy smiling and waving.

"I need the car."

"For what," Heather says, face down in the pillow.

"There's this child-"

Heather lifts her head up. "Excuse me?"

The soft padding of feet is enough to alert Heather and Robin more, a shadow passing along the door. The boy pauses there, waving shyly.

"Bathroom?"

"Oh, just down the hall sweetie." Chrissy points, the boy puttering out of view.

"Chrissy-" Heather hisses, Chrissy looking back with a slightly sheepish expression. "Chrissy did you kidnap a kid?"

"Oh my goodness I don't want to go to jail for kidnapping a child I'm too young to go to jail-" Robin says, Chrissy shaking her head.

"No I'm not! I'm not kidnapping! We're not kidnapping. I found him on my jog. He said his dad left him alone. There's nobody out there, I'm pretty sure he's been abandoned. I wanted to take him to the police station, see what they can do."

Heather sighs. "Alright, fine."

Heather drove them to the station, Chrissy taking the boy inside. The boy clung tight to her hand, face washed and clean now. He looked nervous, clinging tight to Chrissy.

"Hello." The police's receptionist greets.

"Hi. This child's dad abandoned him near my house so I'm bringing him in."

The receptionist looks at the child, who had moved to hide behind Chrissy's leg. It was kind of cute.

"Oh, of course darling. I'll get CPS to come down here to speak with him, if you don't mind staying until then?"

Chrissy accepts, sitting down with the boy.

"I never got your name."

The boy looks up at her, giving her a nervous little smile. "Jeremy. What's your name?"

"Chrissy. I like your name."

The boy smiles a little wider.

CPS comes by a while later, Chrissy staying with him while the social worker asked Jeremy questions. The boy stayed close to her the entire time, Chrissy whispering encouraging words for him. She didn't know him, sure, but he was a little kid. Chrissy couldn't help it.

Eventually she had to leave. She wasn't his guardian, she was just a random woman who just so happened to stumble upon him.

The moment she stood up though, ready to leave while the social worker was ready to move Jeremy to the back, the boy started whining, reaching out for Chrissy.

"Jeremy, I gotta go now. You're gonna be okay," She tried to reassure him, but the kid wasn't having it. He manages to slip out of the grip of the worker and runs to her, grabbing at her legs.

"Don't go!" Jeremy wails.

Chrissy sucks in a breath, kneeling down so she was level with him. Jeremy was right back near to tears again. "Jeremy I have to go. The nice lady is gonna take care of you okay?"

"I'm scared..."

"I know, but you have to go with her. You'll be okay, okay?"

Jeremy sniffs. "Okay..."

"Good." She gives him one last hug, because why not, kids like hugs, Jeremy hugging back.

He lets go after a while, trailing back to the CPS worker. The lady just smiles at her, walking away with Jeremy. Chrissy waves at Jeremy as he leaves, dropping her hand down once he was out of sight.

She heads back out to the car, Heather smiling softly at her.

"He stole your heart didn't he."

"Maybe."

Heather chuckles, pulling away from the station. "Chrissy you knew him for an hour, tops."

"But he was so young! And his dad just-" Chrissy motions with her hand. "I feel so bad for him. He was just abandoned by his family."

"It sucks, it really does." Heather turns down the street. "But there's nothing else you could have done Chrissy. This is his best chance."

"I know. He just- He clung to my legs and told me not to go, Heather."

"Oh he definitely took your heart."

Chrissy nods in agreement.

A few minutes of silence passes. "Say, Heather."

"Yes, Chrissy?"

"Robin did say that she and Steve got accepted to be foster parents, right...?"

#stranger things #chrissy cunningham #robin buckley #heather holloway #with a guest appearance of buckleway!#my stress has disappeared like the wind~ (And Jeremy's father~)

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In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. – Elizabeth Gilbert • It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke • It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks. – Donald Curtis • It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. – Marilu Henner • It is therefore recommended… to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.- Samuel Adams • It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful ‘in general.’ It’s very strange. It’s a little like being married in general. – Cornelius Plantinga • It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin. – Thomas Aquinas • It’s a thanksgiving to God. It’s something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn’t ready for it. So I did it myself. – Aaron Neville • Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch. – Marilu Henner • It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there. – John Hughes • It’s so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early – is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan? – David Letterman • Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road. – John Henry Jowett • Lord, ’tis Thy plenty-dropping hand. That soils my land, And giv’st me for my bushel sowne. Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send. Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart. – – Robert Herrick • Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it. – Ralph Marston • May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven. – Mary Euphrasia Pelletier • May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! – Grandpa Jones My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. – Phyllis Diller • My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it’s just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round. – Cindy Margolis • My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner. – Michael Symon • My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. – Ted Allen No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. – James Allen • No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful. – David Jeremiah • No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us. – Theodore Roosevelt • Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show! – Ted Allen • Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.- W. T. Purkiser • Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices; Who wondrous things hath done, In whom this world rejoices. Who, from our mother’s arms, Hath led us on our way, With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today. – Martin Rinkart • Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving. – George Whitefield • O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! – William Shakespeare • On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. – William Jennings Bryan • On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been. – Bobby Jindal • One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds. – Charles Kelley • Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving. – Seneca the Younger • Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives. – Noah Wyle • Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love. – Thomas Merton • Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain. – Alexander Pope • Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing. – Kurt Busch • Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. – Henry Ward Beecher • Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust – to really believe. • Sharing in God’s blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit. – William J. Clinton • So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart. – Arthur Guiterman • Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. – Robert Burns • Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. – Jim Davis • Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living. – Travis Barker • ‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. – Alice Walker ‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. – Alice Walker • Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. – Garrison Keillor • Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God’s peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration. -Roy Lessin • Thanks are the highest form of thought. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. – Erma Bombeck • Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. – Ayn Rand • Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. – Johnny Carson • Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful. – Jonathan Safran Foer • Thanksgiving is worry’s kryptonite. – Matt Chandler • Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. – Kevin James • Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, “Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England”. – Jay Leno • Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don’t forget indigestion. I wasn’t different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me. – Charles Bukowski • Thanksgiving. It’s like we didn’t even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?’ – Jim Gaffigan • The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. – Merle Shain • The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long. – Warren W. Wiersbe • The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it’s gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up. – Ted Allen • The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn’t even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: ‘Thank you so much. You have changed my life.’ – Tiger Woods • The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm. – Mark Twain • The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. – Jeremy Taylor • The simple act of saying ‘thank you’ is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen. – Simon Mainwaring • The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.- Ole Hallesby • The thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress. – Francis Frangipane • The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. – Henry Ward Beecher • The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. – William Blake • The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.- Jim Gaffigan • The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys – losers that are mass produced and bland.- Marian Burros • The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! Henry Ward Beecher • The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to. – John Baillie • There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don’t buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train. – David Letterman • There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. – Jim Rohn • There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.- O. Henry • There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. – O. Henry • Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. – Paul the Apostle Thinking, Dinner, Chickens • Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God, I’m still alive.’ But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. – Barbara Boxer • Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. – George Herbert To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.- Victor Hugo • We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. – Albert C. Barnes • We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that’s happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people. – Wilma Mankiller • We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be. – Frances Ridley Havergal • We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world. – Jennifer James • We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. – John F. Kennedy • We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox • We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. – Henry Allen Ironside • Well, there’s not a day goes by when I don’t get up and say thank you to somebody. – Rod Stewart • We’re having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we’re having a swan. You get more stuffing – George Carlin • What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to. – Barbra Streisand • What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? – Erma Bombeck • When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat! – David Letterman • When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. – Tecumseh • WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me “to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.” – George Washington • With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. – Laurence Binyon • You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don’t feed them. If you feed them, they’ll never leave. – Dylan Brody • You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity. – Bill Gates • Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. – Khalil Gibran

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