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My HEROES

I would like to dedicate this site to my sister, Shari, who was the first to see I needed help. She stood by me, supported me, fought for me, and cried with me. She is a dragon slayer, a warrior by necessity with a heart that yearns for more innocent days. It is my sincere prayer that she will experience the joy and blessings for herself that she has helped to make possible for me and my children.

To my own gentle father and mother...how many times did I call you when I thought I could hurt no more? Just hearing your voices would calm my spirit - but I know that when I hung up the phone you were both on your knees until late in the night, praying God would protect us, give us strength and courage....I always felt God answer, and I always knew your love. I cherish my inheritance of faith, and the peaceful spirit and joy you always bring both as parents and grandparents. I love you both.

Finally, to my children and my niece and nephew...you are the inspiration for this site. No where have I seen more courage and more strength than I have witnessed as I watched you all pull yourselves out of a generational matrix of abuse. I will never understand the deep loss, the sense of betrayal, the confusion and hopelessness that you have had to absorb as a child of DV. Each day I watch as you find a way to move through it and beyond it - and each day I see more strength, more courage, and lives that are capable of new joys, and hope -- hope for a future that will include relationships that don't hurt and love that will only nurture and heal. You all are truly my heroes.