Jerry Cooke
3.75⭐️ - Opposites attract in this cute tale of two people banding together to keep their siblings out of the care system.
When Chloe gets a call to say that her estranged birth mother has given birth out of the blue, that's a big enough surprise for one day, but when they ask her if she'll take on the care of her baby sister, her life is thrown for a total loop. As a recent graduate and a blood relative, she ticks all the required boxes except one - money. Thankfully, she's got a three bedroom apartment (her roommates having headed home now they're all done with college) and there just so happens to be a new scheme to pair guardians up to share resources. This brings Warren, a surly mechanic with a deaf brother, Luke, in to her life. Any expectations she has for the situation (and first impressions she made of Warren) quickly crumble when it turns out they get on better than she could have hoped for.
This was a really cute story and while I didn't enjoy it as much as Out on a Limb/Out of the Woods, I shed many a happy tear at the found family that arises around the pair. It highlights, in Hanna's wonderful way of describing trauma, the way in which the care system - and particularly inconsistent birth parents with substance abuse - can cause significant walls to be built up against further harm. With all her accustomed tenderness, she shows us just how healing is possible when you open up to those around you and it's beautiful to see!
Originally posted at www.tiktok.com.
3.75⭐️ - Opposites attract in this cute tale of two people banding together to keep their siblings out of the care system.
When Chloe gets a call to say that her estranged birth mother has given birth out of the blue, that's a big enough surprise for one day, but when they ask her if she'll take on the care of her baby sister, her life is thrown for a total loop. As a recent graduate and a blood relative, she ticks all the required boxes except one - money. Thankfully, she's got a three bedroom apartment (her roommates having headed home now they're all done with college) and there just so happens to be a new scheme to pair guardians up to share resources. This brings Warren, a surly mechanic with a deaf brother, Luke, in to her life. Any expectations she has for the situation (and first impressions she made of Warren) quickly crumble when it turns out they get on better than she could have hoped for.
This was a really cute story and while I didn't enjoy it as much as Out on a Limb/Out of the Woods, I shed many a happy tear at the found family that arises around the pair. It highlights, in Hanna's wonderful way of describing trauma, the way in which the care system - and particularly inconsistent birth parents with substance abuse - can cause significant walls to be built up against further harm. With all her accustomed tenderness, she shows us just how healing is possible when you open up to those around you and it's beautiful to see!
Originally posted at www.tiktok.com.