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OVERCOMER STORY
All my life I had no knowledge about self-respect and how I deserved to be
treated. As a young girl, I was disrespected and used by almost every guy in
my life starting with my biological father. As a young girl, your father should
be the one you can count on the most, someone you can turn to or count
on but I wasn’t able to have that with mine. He was abusive to my mother
and emotionally abusive to me. He chose to give me up without a fight and
walked out of my life. Life is hard enough for young girls without being hurt
by those that are supposed to love you.
Society makes it hard for girls, and we struggle with being insecure, and
typically we look to guys for attention and answers. A year ago I was seeking
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