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  Talent from Trauma 2024-05-23

  I became multi-talented (with survivor's guilt) out of necessity, and the inability to see beyond my circumstances. From dreaming of becoming a neurosurgeon at age 9 to finding my path through a computer repair class, this is my story of how trauma shaped my talents.

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  Survival Mode 2024-05-15

  Survival mode. A state no child should have to live in constantly. At age 7, standing at the door of my first group home with my life in a black garbage bag, I became someone I didn't want to be. It took me well into adulthood to understand why.

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  A Slice of a Mom 2024-05-10

  Losing my mother to foster care was like 'a death that you never had a funeral for.' Though I never called anyone 'mom,' I'm grateful to have had a slice of a mom from the foster mothers who made space for me to grow and thrive.

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