Born to two teenagers, one in foster care, raised by grandparents who did not both want me, called stupid for years. The statistics said I was not going to make it. Here is what happened instead.

There is a kind of dying nobody talks about. The slow, quiet kind that happens when we stop taking care of ourselves while waiting for someone else to finally show up for us. This is the story of how I spent most of my life waiting to be seen and what happened when I finally realized I was the one I had been waiting for.