WINFREY: We have more even bigger wildest dreams to fulfill today.
So let's do it. Where is Jennifer McDonald? Come on up.
Come on up, Jennifer.
Here with your three--come on up--and your three daughters,
Natasha, Dara and Dawn.
We received a letter--we received a letter from
your daughters that really moved us.
They told us about your struggle to raise all three of them,
like so many of you out there who are doing it by yourselves,
you're single moms--you know what it's like,
trying to take care of the children, do the best you can.
You know how hard it is. So this is your story, too.
And through all kinds of hard times,
sh--the girls told us that you have always...
Ms. McDONALD: Mm-hmm.
WINFREY: ...managed to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table,
even if it meant that you had to go without.
They told us that you are their greatest inspiration and ours, too.
So let's just take a look, take a look.
Raising three girls is tough enough under the best of circumstances.
Dara, Dawn and Natasha McDonald have watched their mother
struggle to bring them up alone.
When Jennifer McDonald's abusive marriage reached a point of no return,
she packed up her three daughters and fled the home
that she had helped to buy to bring safety to her children.
Unidentified Teen-ager #1: When my mother walked away from her house,
I think she was giving up, I guess, a piece of her.
Unidentified Teen-ager #2: She knew that she was doing it for us.
WINFREY: Well, freedom had its price.
Jennifer left her home, her family and friends to try
and start over alone in Florida, where she hoped that her girls
would have a better life. Like many unsung single
moms--so many of you out there--Jennifer also works tirelessly,
trying to do the best she knows how for her children,
always putting their needs ahead of her own.
Teen-ager #2: When it comes down to her last dollar,
the choice from her having lunch or us, it'd be us.
Teen-ager #1: My mother is the type of person who she lives day
to day just to do what she has to do for us to make us live a decent life.
WINFREY: The girls know it hasn't been easy because
they are as protective of her as she is of them.
Teen-ager #1: Most of the time when she's stressed, she tries to hide it.
And if she gets sick, she even tries to hide it, so that at one point,
I guess the stress really got to her and--and she developed an ulcer.
WINFREY: This mom's love and her resilience
has been an inspiration for her daughters.
Ms. McDONALD: This is--when did all this happen?
WINFREY: When did all this happen?
Jennifer wants to know when did all this happen?
Oh, we've been a little busy.
Your daughters--your daughters, Jennifer, also wrote us about
your wildest dreams. They said, `My mother lived in a verbally
and sometimes physically abusive marriage, and she packed up the kids
and she moved us to a new state to start a better life, but after that,
there was something missing.
It has been my mother's greatest dream--and she speaks
of this dream every day. Her dream is her mission
and she searches day and night for it.'
Well, Jennifer, your dream sure was big.
Ms. McDONALD: Oh, God.
WINFREY: It's bigger than big. It's a huge ol' dream.
Ms. McDONALD: Oh, no.
WINFREY: Yes, it is. I'm going to cry, too.
Ms. McDONALD: It's not what I think it is.
WINFREY: Yes, it is. It's what you think it is.
You're going to need to pack up your bags and everything else
you own because we're going to make that lifelong dream come true.
We bought you a new house! We bought you a new house!
Ms. McDONALD: Oh, God.
WINFREY: Yes, we did. We did. We did.
Your daughters told us that for years,
you have dreamed and dreamed of buying a home for them--oh,
my God--but you could never afford one in the neighborhood
where the girls go to school, until now.
Well, this house is right where you want to be, this house right here.
It's right next to the girls' school,
and we think that you're going to like it very much.
It has--listen to this--four bedrooms so that you each have your own room.
There's a cozy little family room where
you can watch THE OPRAH SHOW every day.
And you'll have a large, spacious kitchen
with all the appliances you need, and your
dining room--there it is--opens into a sunken living room.
And from your backyard patio, you have your own outdoor
swimming pool for those hot Florida days.
Ms. McDONALD: Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
WINFREY: Yeah. And a great yard. It's all yours.
Ms. McDONALD: Thank you. Thank you so much.
WINFREY: It's all yours. It's all yours, Jennifer.
Ms. McDONALD: Oh, my God.
WINFREY: And you can move in as of this summer, move in this summer.
Ms. McDONALD: Oh, my God. Thank you so much.
WINFREY: I know. Isn't that a great dream?
Ms. McDONALD: Oh, my God.
WINFREY: Jennifer represents all of you out there who are struggling,
doing it, working hard. Congratulations, Jennifer!