Hello,

I’m writing with a humbled heart, in hopes of assistance for Christmas for my daughter this year. I’m a single mother to a beautiful 8-year-old girl — the kind of child whose smile could soften the hardest moment, whose love keeps me standing even when life feels heavier than I can lift.

This year has taken more from us than we could have ever imagined we’d have to endure. We lost several loved ones — one loss, then another, and then another — until grief became something we woke up to and went to sleep with. I tried to protect my daughter from as much of that pain as I could, but children feel everything, even through silence. So I stayed home longer than planned, holding her close, holding my family together as best as I could.

That choice cost me the job I had devoted six years to. I’ve been searching every day for new work, but winter in the mountains mean businesses slow down until it warms up.

I would never reach out if I genuinely didn’t need it. I just want my little girl — after all the heartbreak this year — to feel a spark of magic again. To wake up on Christmas morning and believe that the world still remembers her. To see her beautiful face light up and her eyes sparkling, I want her to feel that Santa still knows her name. That joy can still find her, even after so much loss 

Your help would be more than assistance; it would be a moment of light in a year that dimmed more than it should have. It would be a beautiful memory — the Christmas when kindness and light found us.

Thank you for reading our story, Your compassion means more than you’ll ever know.

With deepest gratitude,
Jocelyn Kabel 

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• My City: LAKESIDE

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