Mara Dorne

So I was kind of teeter tottering like, you know, I still have other options when in reality I had no options.

So my dad died when I was really little.

I was six years old when my dad died.

He was 38 years old.

And young guy, young guy, young guy, not healthy, but ends up dying.

We're on vacation, Thanksgiving vacation, dies on Thanksgiving.

And I remember coming back from Atlanta.

We were in Atlanta coming back to Florida.

And my mom just being like she there she was like she just lost her husband.

She's left with this little girl.

And my mom put on the face and it was kind of that mentality going forward.

Like things happen.

It's really sad.

But no matter what happens, you have to get back up.

You've got to put your face on and you have to move forward despite, you know, the pitfalls and the downfalls that are going to happen.

So I think I always grew up with that mentality that, yeah, life is going to happen.

And I experienced it so young, but

you know, what goes down has to come up, right?

When you're at your lowest point, you can only go up from here.

So I kind of grew up with that mentality.