"There have been several times when I wanted to hold him and jump off the roof! If we died, all our sufferings would be over, and we wouldn't have to endure any more pain."
Nobody at the scene had ever experienced the pain of struggling to survive like this. Take the Thomson family, for example; they were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Before Charlotte Rodriguez met David Thomson, she had experienced some hardships for a few years, but at that time, she was on her own, and so she could still make ends meet. Even when she later faced difficulties in giving birth to baby Oliver, she at least didn't have to suffer from hunger and cold. As for Dylan King, although he wasn't rich when he lived with his foster family, he never struggled in extreme poverty like Emma Smith.
However, listening to her words was like a window into her past struggles.
Robert Thomson felt as if waves were building up in his heart, and he went over to gently wrap his arm around Emma's shoulder.
