Maria Johnson doesn’t usually wake up before dawn like she did this past June 13. “I don’t know what made me get up as early as I did that day,” she said. To a 28-year-old mother of four girls, all under the age of 5, sleep is a precious commodity. For Maria, being out of bed and alert that morning may have saved her family. She remembers giving the kids oranges for a pre-breakfast snack, then hearing a huge boom that sent her outside her Newport home to investigate. Moments later, Maria saw flames jump from her neighbors’ burning house to hers. She ran back in and got her family out safely. The five of them, including daughters Azrael, Athena, Maria and Zayrinna – lost nearly everything they owned that morning. But even as they stood outside barefoot, watching flames consume the only home they’d shared – a place that was a refuge from a domestic violence situation – Maria refused to lose faith. unitedwaygc and The Enquirer created the Wish List program to share stories like Mari...