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So it's like, I don't know how to calm the noise when it comes to them.

And right now all I'm hearing is anger.

You know what I'm saying?

All I'm hearing is bitterness or mad.

Like I'm literally in a completely different state.

All alone.

Not all alone, but to you, to people who have not checked in on me, I am alone.

You don't know the life I've created out here.

You don't know the relationship I've maintained out here.

You don't know any of that.

You're still basing everything on my past and what that is then.

And it's like, I am so much better.

I have the healthiest relationship out of anybody in my family and we're not even married.

Now not to toot my own horn, but I feel like that says a lot when knowing the dynamics that we came from.

And it's like, fine, you don't want to see all that fine.

But for me, sometimes that makes me mad.

I want to, and I feel like maybe that is the part of the image that I did pick up from her because like, I want to show you where I'm at.

I want you to see how good I'm doing without you.

No, you're right, though, because I do feel like my inner child is finally at peace.

My inner child is finally happy and proud of who I became.