Learn English With Story 🔥 I Lost My Son | Level 3 Listening || Graded Reader 📚

Hello and welcome to TaleTalk English. Today's story is emotional, heartbreaking, and full of family regret, loneliness, and a powerful lesson about love and time. It will also help you improve your English listening and vocabulary through simple conversations and real life emotions. As you listen, try to imagine every scene, every expression, and every feeling.

This is the story of a mother who nearly lost her son because she gave him everything except her time and attention. My name is Claire Morgan. I am 39 years old and I am a mother. Right now I am sitting alone at the kitchen table in our house. The room is clean. The lights are on.

There is food on the table but nobody is eating. There are three chairs around me. one for me, one for my husband, Michael, and one for our son Noah. But Noah has not sat in that chair for three months. Sometimes I look at it for a long time. I do not know why I do that. Maybe

some part of me still believes that if I wait long enough, Noah will walk through the front door, throw his backpack on the floor, and say, "Mom, what's for dinner?" But the door stays closed. The house stays quiet and I keep thinking about the past. I keep asking myself the same question. When did I lose my son? Was it the night he left? Was it the argument before he disappeared? Or did

I lose him much earlier? Maybe it happened slowly. Maybe I lost him one missed dinner at a time, one unanswered question at a time, one later at a time. When Noah was born, I thought I knew what love meant. I remember the first time I held him. He was so small. His tiny hand held one of my

fingers, and I remember looking at his face and crying. Michael stood beside me. He was crying, too. We're going to give him everything," Michael said. I smiled. "Everything," I whispered. We were young parents, but we had big dreams. We wanted Noah to have a better life than we had. We wanted him to have a beautiful home, good clothes, a good school, and enough money. We wanted him to feel