Ahh anonymity. I just love it..
Four years ago I was in a medical detox. Don't ask what I was kicking. Suffice to say it nearly killed me. I was unrecognizable to myself and my family. I was a shell of a human being. I was suicidal and the doctors couldn't figure out how to make me well. They told me I'd need a nursing home. They told my family girls like me just don't recover. And out of nowhere after two weeks I was taken into a room and there stood my father. He'd flown across the country to see me. He took me from that place to another one. I could hardly walk. I shook so hard I couldn't hold a fork steady. I looked at him and said, "I can't do this". He said this to me. "I will NOT bury you! I will NOT go to your funeral. You will do this. YOU CAN AND YOU F*CKING WILL". And you know what, I believed him. And those doctors were wrong. Girls like me do recover. Girls like me can be brave and honest and ask for help and believe enough in life and humanity to take it. Girls like me can thrive and become beautiful both physically and spiritually again. We can and do get second chances. We even find the man our our dreams and get engaged.
My father was right. I can and I will. I did that and I can and will do this. And so can you.
