Her 11th Birthday Was The First Time She Said She Didn’t Want To Live. She Left On His 21st.

People are afraid to talk about it, much less learn about it. So afraid, in fact, that if I used the word in this intro, fewer of you would even watch it. But if you and I don’t take the time to understand, to see the humanity in each and every one of us, who…

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May 23, 2014

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