30 DAYS OF DEEP AND RANDOM QUESTIONS (a series)

DAY 24:

"What's something that your parents did to you that you will never do to your future kids?"

Leave them!

I grew up in a broken household. I grew up with my mother, uncles, and grandparents.
It was a household of love and and nurture, but the world remains broken as a huge part of who i am felt incomplete.

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