11 year old you would be so proud of you. She would be so proud that after everything you had been through,

you were brave anyway. And you kept trusting in the process even when you were afraid. And even though

there are so many things you have yet to figure out, you still chose to do your best with what you have right here in the now. I know it is so hard to see, but she would be so proud. 11-year-old you would be so proud. Hi there. My name is Morgan

Harper-Nichols and welcome to my podcast. This is a space where I share things that I've written

and I've created all with people's stories in mind. People submit stories to me via

my website and my Instagram DMs and my Twitter DMs and I create artwork and poetry around

what they send me and I send it to them. And their stories remain anonymous and their names remain private.

And I share the poetry like the one that I, the piece that I just read with the world.

That was one of the first times that I read that piece out loud. And it's one of those pieces that I wrote for someone else. And it also

really spoke to me as well, even though I wrote it. I felt like I was just saying something that I

needed to hear. I remember being 11 years old. And that was actually a really interesting year of my life. That was the year that 9-11

happened. That was the year that my family lost a really close family member in a really tragic way.

It was a year that I watched my younger sister get hospitalized. It was a really wild year, a year that I felt like

I saw, I saw, wow, this world is a big, scary place, and there are a lot of things that happen

that there are not easy answers for. And I don't really know what to do about that and even though that was many years

ago I still I still remember a lot of that year I still remember thinking how are we going to make

it through this how are we going to get through this how am I going to get through this and when I

think about 11 year old Morgan and I think about 11-year-old Morgan, and I think

about everything that was going on in the world, in the country, in my family's life, in my life at

that time, I just think about, wow, if she could see me now, she might not say, she may say, who knows, or she might not say she may say who knows or she might not say like wow like

you are so incredible you're so cool but she would at least say wow you made it you made it through

all of those things like that was really hard but you made it you made it a whole year, a whole two years, three years,

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