For so long, I was controlled and manipulated by other people. Whatever people think of me, I'm finally doing what I want to do.

There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life.

It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"

I knew that there was an underlying thing there that I was never really able to come face to face with. There's a part of me that wants to always protect myself because of what I had gone through. But I learned that you have to let people in. Going to the therapist kind of helped me with that.

I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.