The maternity ward echoed with the cries of five fragile newborns. A young mother, drenched in sweat and tears, gazed at her quintuplets with a trembling smile. They were so small, so vulnerable—yet to her, they were perfect.

But the moment that should have been filled with joy was shattered.

Her partner leaned over the crib, his face blanching as if he’d seen a ghost.
“They… they’re black,” he whispered, his voice sharp with suspicion.

The mother blinked in disbelief. “What are you saying? They are our children. They are yours.”

But his eyes hardened. “No! You betrayed me!”

And with those cruel words, he turned and walked out, leaving her—alone, abandoned, holding five infants who had just lost their father before they even learned his name.

That night, while the babies whimpered in her arms, she whispered through her sobs:
“It doesn’t matter who leaves us. You are my children. And I will never abandon you.”

The Weight of Five

Raising one child is already a mountain. Raising five alone? An impossible climb.

Yet she climbed it anyway.

She scrubbed office floors long after midnight, stitched clothes in the blue glow of dawn, and took every thankless job others refused. Every cent she earned was stretched, bent, and broken to buy milk, medicine, and rent.

But the world did not make it easy.