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Sarita

I was sitting on my couch crying because I was not feeling at home anymore. Growing up, I used to watch romantic...

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Racism

Injury

Gilbert

Everything was turned upside down. I went from being a cherished local running hero to being hunted down like an animal...

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Kim

I was on the verge of a breakthrough in New York for a lead role in Beauty and The Beast when I got the devastating...

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PTSD

Freedom

Faisal

Suddenly what was previously good neighbors living in harmony started killing each other. Growing up, I felt I grew up...

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Discrimination

Identity

Anila

I felt men saw it as their right to do what they wanted to me, and no matter what they did, it was my fault. Growing up...

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Abuse

Neglect

Loneliness

David

No matter what I did, my aunt kept harassing and emotionally abusing me to the point where I felt I had no worth or...

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Self image

Identity

Work

Bongeziwe

After years of bullying and racism, I saw in myself a very ugly person, and my self-worth was long fading. Growing up,...

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Loneliness

Grief

Identity

Ketakandriana

I unexpectedly lost my father whom I recognized so much of myself in. This took me from being a driven A-level student...

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Identity

Racism

Neurodevelopmental

Maria

I felt like my environment saw me as too much, talking too much, being too much, too much, too much, and too much… and...

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Addiction

Mike

I felt lost and stupid because all I lived for was more drugs. As a teenager, I slipped into heavy drugs, and my life...

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Grief

Work

Khanyisile

Losing one of the girls to the consequences of the inhumanity they had faced devastated me. After losing my husband in...

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Moving

Abuse

Yamikani

I felt that no matter what I did, I failed to fit in and that my environment resented who I was. Moving back to...

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