Gavin became my companion—not to save me, but to walk beside me, never once trying to decide anything for me.

I learned that peace doesn’t always arrive as silence.

Sometimes it arrives as a signed prison sentence, an open door, a son who comes home, and a truth spoken out loud to the world.

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Do it for every woman who has been told she’s exaggerating, that she’s crazy, that she should just be grateful to be alive.

They took one of my organs, stole my child, and tried to erase my mother.