When we’ve been struggling with no one accepting us for who we are, when people denigrate us, try to make us feel less than; when our family and friends turn on us – we feel like we don’t belong, we don’t have a place, and when we turn to the church for comfort and are betrayed, we often feel the need to end it all, to take ourselves out. But, many have chosen to live, to be stronger, to show and to say to those who seek to pull me down, that they intend to achieve their potential in life.

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