Yolanda Williams met another single mom on Threads. Now they have a “momune.” Andrea Morales for BI This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yolanda Williams, 46, who lives in central Arkansas with her 9-year-old daughter on a farm with another single mom and her two kids. They help each other with childcare, mental support, and more. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. In 2021, after my daughter Gia and I got COVID, we decided to take a drive one day. I came across this one little road that I fell in love with. We kept coming back, driving around this neighborhood in Arkansas, and it became our Sunday thing. We’d get in the car and get ourselves a sweet treat — me a coffee and her a cinnamon roll — and drive around for an hour looking at all the different farms and houses and really just visualizing the life we wanted. Yolanda Williams bought land in Arkansas and hopes to build a house before she’s 50. Andrea Morales for BI We did that for two years before I found our 3.19-acre land in rural Arkansas. After visiting it, I purchased the land in
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