I was born this way .
This speech will open many doors. I hope one of them will be for you. You are not forgotten. Maybe, you were like me. Afraid. Afraid because I thought I did something to cause all the pain that was done to me. It didn’t matter how pretty I was or how talented. I was broken. I’m still trying to glue myself back into who I think I deserve to be. But I’m a lot stronger now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=14KX7xOJsqE I have spent years trying to understand and forgive myself for blaming Myself for all the many traumatic situations I have survived miraculously. Yes, even the sexual assaults. I might not have Stefani's voice but everything she said Affected me so deeply including the PTSD, the physical pain... . Hiding away. Trying to go on, I too felt every day. I was given many opportunities just like her. Opportunities that could have brought me into that room with her. But I kept turning them down, blaming my daughter, because she d