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In An Instant Part Ten

Michelle Renee Kidwell
5 min readJul 16, 2022
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Chapter Eight:

I never imagined I’d find the course to do these things I’m doing, eating at a nice restaurant despite the fact, the chance is I’m going to need help, and I’ll make a mess of things, but this is my life now, and I have to accept that I have different challenges now, challenges I never imagined I would have to face, but I am facing them, that means I have no choice but to live with it, but I also no I have a choice on how I decide to deal with it. I am going to have good days and bad days as well.

Some people will stare out of curiosity or maybe out of plain rudeness, and I can have a choice, I can educate or ignore and honestly there are going to be days I choose to ignore and that’s okay, what’s important is I don’t give up on living which was what I was starting to do, and it wasn’t only hurting me, it was hurtingAndrea wand Chloe too.

I’m not going to pretend that I wave a wand and everything is okay, because that’s so fat from the truth, but emotionally I am getting a little stronger, and I guess in some ways physically too, that doesn’t mean that the things I have to fight to do, don’t frustrate me, because they do. I still get frustrated and honestly sone nights I end up letting the tears lull me to sleep, but I am alive, I’m able to be with my family I’ve been given more sunrises and sunsets, to be honest this has taught j to

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Michelle Renee Kidwell
Michelle Renee Kidwell

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