Elizabeth Smart

I mean, this should not be the issue that it is.

There should not be this disparity between white, blonde, Caucasian, blonde women versus Native American or Indigenous populations.

or or any race for that matter whether they're you know african-american or or latino or i think it's it's beautiful like this trajectory you're on this kind of transformation that you've made obviously like you didn't necessarily owe your voice to anyone right like if what you had chose to do was like i'm gonna heal myself and i think that's all you owed people but to to lend your voice in this way i think is really meaningful and you said something earlier like i

For a minute, I wanted to just go back.

I wanted to pretend it didn't happen.

And like, I realized I could never go back to my life.

Have you ever thought about, I'm sure you did, what, like, what did you think your life, the trajectory was before this happened?

Like, who would you have been now?

And, you know, you probably lost, you know, you would be just something totally different.

Like, what does that look like for you saying, like, I had this whole other trajectory and someone else's decision changed mine?

You know, I used to... I played... I grew up playing the harp.

I grew up studying the harp.

And I thought I would study harp in school, which, I mean, I did.

But then it was always my dream to go to Juilliard and study harp performance at Juilliard.

And I always wanted to perform in Carnegie Hall.

And, I mean, I just... I wanted to grow up and be a harpist and...

I don't know that I thought much past that point, but I mean, you know, I also envisioned myself falling in love and getting married and having a family.

And I mean, I did fall in love.

I have gotten married.

I have kids.