You should've seen my big hair in the 80's, that was a real project.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

You survived the abuse, you’re going to survive the recovery.

It wasn't really that hard to act when you see somebody holding a gun to your partner. It's also believing the circumstances and I believed it.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today; I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.