Bernenda Marc
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But it was not until I was like, I need love.
I have all this love to give and I'm...
I need to be myself.
It started when, before my mom passed, like on her deathbed, I came out to her.
I was like, mom, I like women.
And I'm trying not to get teary-eyed, but... That's okay.
She looked at me and she said, I still love you.
And a part of me regretted that I didn't give my parents a chance to love the version of me that was 100% me.
And that's when I knew that
People are going to love me for me.
And if they don't because of who I love, then that's their problem.
It's not mine.
But now I know, and now I know that both my parents would have still loved me the same.
It would have been challenging because the first thing that they would worry about is, here you are, you have all these other check marks.
You're a woman.
You're Haitian.
You're black.
Now you're gay.
That's more and more and more things that...