Miranda

She is kind of the catalyst to why I chose to record this.

So this is dedicated to Olivia.

I would say that they would describe me as funny, brave, and smart.

I grew up in a town called Sand Springs, which is not the biggest town in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma itself is pretty small and generally conservative.

I had a pretty chaotic childhood.

My parents divorced one another when I was pretty young.

I was two, and I was toted back and forth between the two of them.

Until I turned 18 and went to college.

My mom, I think, has struggled a lot with various addiction and pain in her life.

And until I was in fifth grade, she was married to a man who was very abusive to our family.

Half of the time I was with her and my stepdad and the other half of the time I was with my dad.

My dad is quite the opposite of who I am.

We don't see eye to eye on a lot of things.

I have non-conservative views and don't get along with some of my family because of that.

They also never spoke to one another, so I was the middleman between the two of them.

And my first recollection of them ever being in a room together was in high school when I graduated.

All that to say, I'm pretty close with my mom now and we have worked really hard on our relationship and forgiving one another.

Yeah, it was just generally chaotic and I think set the stage for me to be 18 and moving away from home for the first time and being really excited.

It was the first time that I'd ever been living in one place longer than a week because I had spent one week with my dad and then one week with my mom.