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“I never thought I’d make it through high school—let alone college,” Bayley says. But this past May, he earned his bachelor’s degree. “It seems like a dream,” he says. “It’s crazy that I’m here now, but I’m very thankful for it all.” For Bayley,
Emily Lubin was a little girl who loved performing for her family — funny, full of life, yet already aware that her body was being judged. For as long as she can remember, she was critiqued and picked apart for her appearance. “I was about 10 years old, and I was
“I remember talking to the trees and the forest. And I would talk to the insects falling into the barrel of rainwater. I was creating live stories for them.” Hope Silver, the pen name of Nadezhda Serebrennikova, has always brought the magic of her reality to life through writing. Writing
“I don’t want a cleaning person. Being able to clean and scour bathrooms reminds me that I’m okay still.” You wouldn’t know, just by looking at her, that Jackie is living with stage four cancer. She prefers it that way, because the emotional toll of sharing her