I am. But, I had help. Before college, I was not becoming the monster I feared; I was fading… falling inward toward nothingness. My Gran pushed like mad to get me to college. And, in college, a friend (the sister of my heart) wouldn't let me keep falling. She took my side, held my hand and kept me moving foward. In that journey, I became the person my husband of 30 years married bliss came to love.

I built a new family for myself and it is the family I needed as a child.