by EndCAN | Aug 12, 2019 | survivor-stories
It’s worth the wait As this new year begins, I’d like to give some positivity, as well as some hope and encouragement to all the families who are thinking of adopting or have started the process and may feel like they’re sitting in limbo. It’s worth it, and worth the...
by EndCAN | Aug 12, 2019 | survivor-stories
Return to innocence We all hear voices in our heads. Ok, I know what you’re thinking, but just hear me out. We hear the doubting voice, the overly critical voice, the voice that tells us to give into fear, the voice that says you are justified in your anger and...
by EndCAN | Aug 9, 2019 | survivor-stories
Swirling We live in Michigan now. We moved here in June. Right after school let out for the summer. We sold our farm. And basically everything. Even the chickens. We are renting a house. Right in town. In our new town. It’s big and ugly and shaped like a barn. The...
by EndCAN | Aug 8, 2019 | survivor-stories
Stealing We are sitting around the supper table. In Northern Minnesota, the evening meal is called supper. And not dinner. We say it’s dinner time when we are eating lunch. I don’t know why. And, I guess this information is unimportant. We are eating boiled macaroni...
by EndCAN | Aug 6, 2019 | survivor-stories
Life with my abusive father My father thought that it was necessary for children to fear their parents in order to behave. He thought that kids were born bad. He was physically abused as a child by his own father, and then fought in Vietnam, so my father told himself...
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