...They also showed me the harsh reality of life and death. Knowing that one day we’d be here and the next we’d not always terrified me...

By Georgia, my parents got divorced. After seeing their marriage decay, I stopped believing in love. I stopped believing that I would be...

Since I was a child, I’ve been an open book and eager to have new experiences. I wanted to “see the world,” and perhaps, find...

I was born into a conservative Christian family in Nigeria in 1991 as the fifth born of six kids. Our days were happy, but strict...

I did not come into a perfectly happy world upon my birth in 1883. My mother had always blamed my father for disappearing into his dirty...

My father refused to work because he believed if we had too much money, we would be damned, so my mother and I would cut dry wood to sell...