Sian-Pierre Regis was in Paris when he got his mom’s voicemail:
“I just got fired. I wanted you to know that.” His 75-year-old mother, Rebecca,
had worked as a housekeeper for as long as he could remember. She’d raised two
boys alone in Boston over the hotel where she worked. She’d cashed out her 401K
so her sons could go to college; put her dreams on hold so they could live
theirs. Then Rebecca lost her job. Regis decided it was time to give back. He knew his mom had been working on a list of
things she’s always wanted to do. “When she got fired,” he said, “all these
bucket list items took on so much more weight.” Since then they’ve been
checking off items together: take a hip-hop lesson, milk a cow, join
Instagram. As of May they still had a few items left, including skydiving. But
there’s plenty of time. After all, she’s only 75.
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