Maureen's Haven

Maureen's Haven was a Women's Shelter and a place of refuge and hope for women in need. They arrived battered and broken, often with their kids, seemingly with no life left in them. All hope had gone and life had defeated them - or so they felt. Maureen had been in that state a few short years ago and knew that there was hope for these women and that she was the one to provide it for them. The wretched women that arrived at her shelter were not the same women who left. They were self-assured, trained in a skill and many had already found employment that could sustain them. It was awesome to see the transition and most gratifying for Maureen and her staff. Some even had their faith in men restored and actually fell in love and found that elusive dream of romance and affection in the most unexpected places. Unicorns did exist, they were just harder to find, but they were out there. Some of Maureen's friends were bitten by the same bug too and they also became embroiled in romantic entanglements of significant passion and desire. It must have been the air out there on the Atlantic Coast Maureen thought. Whatever it was it was pretty powerful in terms of magnetic attraction. Happy ever after was possible, and Maureen made these formally broken women see that and accept the fact that they too could find that elusive pot of gold. They just had to look in the right places.