Time has changed the way I look at things. In the eighteen years, I have seen so many things that I couldn't have explained. The thing that maybe I wish wasn't true. But now turning nineteen I know there was a purpose to it all. I am grateful for the life that I have had, and for my family. I am grateful, but I have a new life, one they won't be able to be a part of. But this is the life I have chosen. This is how it began.