Tomoko! What was it like raising Josuke by yourself? It must of been hard, even with your father there, huh?
I was so young I didn’t really know what to do. I didn’t know if I should keep him or give him to someone who knew what they were doing, but when I first saw him he just looked up at me with these big beautiful eyes, and he was looking at me like I was the most amazing thing in the world, and at that moment I knew I had to keep him and do whatever it took to take care of him.
And it took a lot. Honestly, if I didn’t have my dad, we probably wouldn’t have made it through a year. I had to stop going to school for a few years, and work whatever jobs I could manage to squeeze into my schedule of raising a child. I was so scared I was going to do something wrong, and god when he got sick I didn’t know if he’d make it, I was terrified. Most of the time we just barely squeaked by with bare necessities, but we made it. And Josuke, I’m so proud of him, I know things were hard for him too, but he’s blossomed into such a wonderful young man and I love him to the moon and back.Â
You know, even with how difficult everything was...
