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Tattoos
The hardest self-image issue I struggle with is admitting who I am now . I have constantly reminded myself that the person everyone else sees and hears is who I am now. Not the pre-diagnosed teenage girl. That girl, in many ways, died 18 years ago and with her many forms of innocence and hope.…
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After Africa
I was chosen to travel with three other people, one of my religion teachers, a nun, and one other student, to Nairobi, Kenya the summer of 2000. The trip happened to be the summer before my senior year of high school. Which unbeknownst to me the end of an era in my life and the…
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My Rock
The final piece of my immediate circle is my husband. I met him seven years ago and were married about a year and half later. He is actually one of the most challenging people to write about, that I want to introduce. It is our strong union that makes my story, our story, so incredible…