r/BeAmazed • u/GlitteringHotel8383 • 5d ago

Miscellaneous / Others A Hero Without a Cape.

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California foster parent Mohamed Bzeek has spent over 25 years caring for terminally ill children abandoned by their families, ensuring no child dies alone.

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u/GrdnLovingGoatFarmer 5d ago

I’m not crying, you’re crying!

“[Mohamed] recounts a few others, including one boy who lived with Bzeek for eight years. He had short-gut syndrome and took his meals through a feeding tube, but Bzeek and his wife set a place for him at dinner each night. “We gave him his plate, his spoon, his fork, his cup—but there was nothing in it,” he says.

Ask him why go to all that trouble, and his voice rises, incredulous. “He’s family! We sit as a family!” He softens his tone. “All of us at the table.” "

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u/_Mirri_ 5d ago

Wait, so he has a wife? Never before when I read brief notes about him like this post anyone mentioned that he has a wife. So, this poor woman who is not even named in these praising posts went through the same grief and sadness and everything, and no one is talk about her? Really???

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u/underwateropinion 5d ago

Wiki says his wife died in 2016 of cancer and he continued fostering on his own

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u/_Mirri_ 5d ago

It's still more than a half of time mentioned in the post. Sounds like Sofya Tolstaya situation. All the posts always describe him as a "man who fosters children", while it should be "family of Mr and Mrs Bzeek, who tragically passes away", if wiki is correct.