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HLWinchester/ Hannah Young

I walked up to Jareds autograph table, nervous, shaking with excitement, but mostly just excited. I finally would get to tell him that I managed to draw/paint him - I hoped he would be proud.

"Oh wow that's awesome... Did you do this?"

Giggly, I responded, "I did... I met you last year in Minneapolis. I was kinda upset over Jensen saying nothing about my drawing of him. But you let me show you and then I talked about not being able to draw you.... And here we are!"

"Yes! I do remember... What's your name then?"

"Hannah,"

He beamed at me but took a little more time to look at the poster, and I noticed he looked at my silver pass. " This really is awesome and I hope Jensen loves it too," he winked.

"Well... He actually won't be signing it... This is my friends first convention and I gave her his auto off my pass"

He looked at me like it was the most humble thing he'd ever heard... He motioned me closer to him as he signed it, a little personalized note, but then he whispered and now I was shaking nervous.

"Chill out with Cliff here for a bit, I know my autos take some time but I want to talk to you afterwards,"

And as the obedient little soldier I was, I waited. I immediately told my friends what was going on through text and they flipped and were just as curious... A whopping thirty minutes later, they finished, and Jared and his handler made their way to me.

He smiled so dashingly and asked me to follow him.

"Where are we going?"

"Now... If I'm right... During our photo ops last year - sometimes faces and names get blurry - but you said something about you having self harmed... How has that been going for you?"

A little teary eyed, I told him I'd failed a few times... But in ten days I would be at five months strong...

"Well, I am still very proud of you. It's a fight you keep fighting and I know you always will," he stopped me and hugged me again, "this family loves you so stay strong, Hannah, okay"