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You think you know me, you don't know me away at all. slash resources. Thank you so much. You know me you don't know me where at taking, I was going into therapy, but there was more I had to do. I had to frame things differently. And I'd always been a writer. You know, I got published for the first time when I was in fourth grade. I had all these teachers that believed in me, but most especially they had always believed in my writing and my

words and my thoughts. So I thought, man, I'm just going to write this shit out. And so I started writing

and I think I started a blog, you know, threw some post up there just to process parenting, marriage, healing, grief.

Most of my writing is all about grief. I don't know why I hit public. I did.

And as I shared more, I got more traction and more people saying, oh my God, thank you for sharing

that. I have not been through what you've been through,

but I feel the way I feel about my experiences, the same way you do. My perception and my grief

is very similar to yours, even though my parent hasn't been murdered. And in that, I found community.

And I kept finding community. Like, I had somebody reach out to me that I'd met on the playground

and said, hey, I just saw your post and oh my God, my mom was murdered. And she introduced me to this beautiful

group on Facebook called Children of Murdered Parents. And just to know that I, my opening up myself

and sharing my tragedy has helped me find a community. God, that was so beyond healing. It was enlightening as well.

So I got this feedback from the universe, from the world, from community saying, yes, keep writing.

And soon, like, I won an award for my writing. There were signs for my mom and all of that.

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