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daring to listen. We are the discarded few. We have been abused, gaslit, ignored, slandered, deceived,

intentionally hurt and betrayed. Our stories were manipulated and our voices were stolen.

We were left alone with all the confusion, grief, hurt, and pain.

But today, we begin to reclaim our stories and find our voices once again,

because we matter.

And being a body behind the bus is not the gospel.

I am all about blessed subtraction.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus.

And by God's grace it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

You either get on the bus

or you get run over by the bus.

Those are the options. Do you get run over by the bus?

Those are the options.

But the bus think I can stop.

The only way I can describe my experience is to compare it to the stories you hear of people that go diving in the ocean.

They think they're swimming up towards the surface, but they're actually disoriented and swimming down and end up drowning.

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