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Weird Girl Who Passed as Popular Growing up, I was never really the most popular girl in school. I hung out with popular people. I was invited to parties. I dated a guy on the football team. I did my hair and makeup every morning before school. Around seventh grade, I “turned pretty,” and from…
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I didn’t realize I liked him until the day he told me, “I’m not moving to Vegas.” And suddenly… nothing in my life felt temporary anymore.
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I used to think childhood meant innocence, but mine felt more like survival training. We were just kids trying to hold up adults who were falling apart in front of us. The day we picked my dad up from the psychiatric hospital was the day something in me shifted. Whatever faith I had left started…
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I used to think my parents were untouchable. The couple everyone admired. The ones who laughed the loudest, dressed the best, and owned every room they walked into. My mom was beautiful in a way that made people stare, and my dad carried himself like he was bulletproof. But the year I turned twelve, something…
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I’ve gone back and forth trying to decide if i want to tell my story. It’s a story full of pain, courage, violence and suicide, abuse. Some of the people that are in my life wouldn’t be happy im sharing this and I guess that’s another reason I’ve wanted to not say anything but the…
From Broken to Boss: Becoming Me 