I never imagined a $5 pair of baby shoes could change the entire course of my life.

I never imagined a $5 pair of baby shoes could change the entire course of my life. But the day I slid them onto my son’s tiny feet and heard that faint crackling sound, everything shifted — not just in my home, but deep inside my heart. My name’s Claire. I’m 31, a single mom, and most days I’m just trying to make it through one more shift, one more overdue bill, one more sleepless night. I wait tables three evenings a week at a small diner while raising my three-year-old son, Stan, and caring for my bedridden mother. Life…