A Grieving Mother Was Brought To Tears By Gay Man's T-Shirt
Facebook is a great place to find the fiercest street performers, treadmill dancers and gay marriage proposals. Occasionally, it's also a great place to find the kind of posts that'll give you the best kind of feels.
This week, the man dominating our feed is Matt Strother, a West Virginia entertainer who shared a touching story about an encounter he had with the mother of a gay son who died in a car accident years earlier.
According to Strother, the woman approached him while he was waiting to have his car's oil changed—he was wearing a "He's Mine" t-shirt, the same shirt her late son had also owned.
It was the last shirt she ever saw him wearing.
Their chat was brief, but her words stayed with him. Before the two parted, she told him, "Always love yourself."
Strother wrote:
Wow...... So I'm getting my oil changed and a vibrant cheerful middle aged woman comes in the waiting area and starts talking to me. She's so sweet... She noticed my shirt that says "He's Mine."
She starts telling me how much I remind her of her son. I noticed she had tears in her eyes. So I gave her a hug and asked if she wanted to talk about him with me. She wiped her tears and held my hand and told me how amazing her son was. How he was so full of life. She said he came out to her and his dad after college and the dad disowned him. And as a result divorced the man.
She did everything in her power to be as close to him as she could. A couple years later he died in a car crash frown emoticon the last time she saw him he was wearing the same shirt as I have on.
She kissed me on the cheek, told me she was paying for my oil change (even tho I begged her not to) and told me to always love myself and to call my mom and tell her I love her... Today is beginning to be something amazing.
