grew up in. She bought me the
books she never got to read. She
took me to the schools that she
never got to go to. I immersed
myself in those worlds and I came
back looking at the world a different
way. I saw that not all families are
violent. I saw the futility of
violence, the cycle that just repeats
itself, the damage that’s inflicted on
people that they in turn inflict on
others.
I saw, more than anything, that
relationships are not sustained by
violence but by love. Love is a
creative act. When you love
someone you create a new world for