An inspiring story to give people reasons to live and not commit suicide.

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I was selected to write this entry on behalf of Maybelline's #BraveTogether writeathon for National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11) throughout the month of October. This entire month (and NCOD) is really important to me since it's the month that I publicly came out a few years ago as a lesbian. If you also want to participate in the writeathon either as a member of the LGBTQ+ community or as an ally, you can write an essay and post it with the tag #BraveTogether. Every entry using that tag will result in a $1 donation to the Trevor Project, the world's largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people.