The daughter of a legendary thief, who sewed winter coats out of stolen purses. Herself a thief, pickpocket, swindler. My savior who came to ruin my life. My Tamako, my Sookee.
Mohamed Bzeek, a Libyan-born Muslim, has been fostering terminally ill children for the past two decades. Since then, he has buried 10 children, some of who have died in his arms.
One of his foster children is a six-year-old girl who has a rare brain defect. As a result, she’s deaf, blind, and her arms and legs are paralysed. “I know she can’t hear, can’t see, but I always talk to her,” he said. “She has feelings. She has a soul. She’s a human being.” He took this young girl under his wing when she was just one month old. Mohamed’s biological son, Adam, was born in 1997 with brittle bone disease and dwarfism.
The DCFS said that Mohamed is the man they always call when they need to find a placement for a shock child. “He’s the only one that would take a child who would possibly not make it,” said a DCFS coordinator. In fact, he’s the only foster parent in the country that is known to take terminally ill children.
After being inspired by Mohamed’s story, somebody set up a gofundme. Click here to donate.
Not strictly a client, but definitely professionally frustrating. I had a job available on my team for a potential video shooter and editor. Anearly twentysomething guy interviewed and failed miserably to get the job. Not even close.
Three weeks later I get a call from one of my competitors saying he (the interviewee) had cited me as a past place of employment and asked me if I’d give him a reference.
Interesting tactics. I almost respected him for the audacity. Almost, but not quite.
“One of my plays is getting produced!”
“What’s it about?”
“So there’s this guy, and he really loves this one girl— she’s the girl of his dreams. But she’s going off to college. So he applies to every nearby college, just so he can be close to her. But the only college that accepts him is a clown college. But here’s the thing— he’s terrified of clowns.”
this is the funniest fucking thing and I’ve been thinking about it all week
