This story is about a single mother who is struggling to take care of her son. In order to provide for him, she takes on a job as a prostitute working during the night. She takes men home and fulfills her job around her sleeping son, only a curtain away. When her son ask's her about what she does and why she gets all dressed up she simply reply's "im waiting for angels to come". With her son getting older she starts becoming worried that he is gonna find out about what she does so she comes up with this lie. If her son was to ever ask her who the man is that is with her she was gonna tell him it was his father, that "an angel has brought him back from heaven for a while.
This story is about the life and hard times of any single mother who has to do whatever possible to provide a means for their family because her sons father decided to "disappear with the nights shadows a long time ago". This mother decides to become a night woman or a prostitute in order to take on this challenge of life. In order to protect her sons innocence, she lies to him. She denies him the truth about their true financial issues and struggles and the truth about what low down dirty thing she has to do to men but she keeps his hope alive. She would rather him think about the positive in the world, heaven, the angels, the fact that his father who had left probably to be with another woman of the night would soon come back.
This single mother wanted the world to seem like heaven to her son to keep his hope alive rather then revealing him to the horrible truth of it all.
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