text: Thank you for telling this story, your story. I held my breath while reading it! What horror, what abandonment, what crimes were committed against you! And, yes, your Mother abandoned you that day, as mine did when I confided in her. Do you feel, as I do, that you have lived hundreds of years? Your story helps me because it is so real and so true. We, and tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands around the entire world, are brothers and sisters in pain, but also in hope for real change. Thank you again.