The sirens woke me at 6:12 a.m. Blue and red lights flashed across my bedroom ceiling. I was thirty-four weeks pregnant and alone. When I opened the door, Sheriff Brennan told me my elderly neighbor, Ruth Higgins, had been found dead. Then he pointed toward my mailbox. \u201cOpen it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Inside was a thick yellow envelope stuffed with hundred-dollar bills and a handwritten letter: \u201cIf you are reading this, dear girl, I am already gone.\u201d Ruth explained that she had watched me struggle alone after my boyfriend, Kyle, abandoned me and left me with a mortgage I couldn\u2019t afford. She had decided to help. CONTINUE READING…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sirens woke me at 6:12 a.m. Blue and red lights flashed across my bedroom ceiling. I was thirty-four weeks pregnant and alone. When I opened the door, Sheriff Brennan told me my elderly neighbor, Ruth Higgins, had been found dead. Then he pointed toward my mailbox. \u201cOpen it,\u201d he said. Inside was a thick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40491,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40487\/revisions\/40491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}