I choose to live
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Last published Sat, Mar 15, 2025
If we do not allow ourselves to mourn our losses, our unfulfilled dreams, what has been taken from us and what we have not achieved, we build walls around ourselves that become our own prison. Today I want to stop being my own hostage and dismantle what I have spent so many years building.
I am driven by freedom and the desire to see how my life will change when I accept what has happened to me and forgive myself for what I have done.
This book is part of my healing, my acceptance of the girl who went through it all and didn't break, who thought she was worthless and unworthy of happiness, but who is on her way to happiness.
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