PHOTO BY RAFAEL PICHARDO / MPW.59 PHOTO BY RAFAEL PICHARDO / MPW.59
  • Between Parents
  • By Rafael Pichardo, Freelance
  • The 59th Missouri Photo Workshop / Chillicothe, Mo.
  • What drives people to make the most difficult choices, the kind that affect kids and split families apart? The need to be loved and have family is a bond all humans share. It does not matter in where we live; the changes affect the whole world.

    This is the story of two girls living in between a father and a mother. It is a story of two young girls dealing with the difficulties of the lost love between their parents.

    Destiny, 11 and Charity Murrell, 9, visit their father’s house after school and later each evening they are driven to their mother’s house to sleep. They live in two homes and two worlds.

    Even with these complications, there is still room for sharing and love between the sisters. They play, read, go church and school, and enjoy their lives.

    On a typical day the girls spend time at their father’s after school. Later, they take their backpack and head to their mother’s. Their day ends at bedtime with kisses and good nights from Mom.

    Tomorrow is another day with the same routine.

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