Stella Mickunaite

I don't want to cry.

You have to open your doors for yourself.

That's what it taught me.

I've been twice and look it's one of those things as well like you miss them so much that basically revisiting them it's like retraumatizing yourself again and it's like going back and seeing you know more gray hair and more wrinkles and children grown it's like time is ruthless

Okay, so my grandmother raised two sons and one daughter.

And she always says, thank God I was pushing for a third child and I got a daughter.

So, yeah, she's like, I would be lost without my Auntie Laura.

She was obviously a massive backbone for my granny as well when she lost her husband.

But I guess what it taught that first maybe one thing that I had to probably unlearn that you have to work hard to be loved because life was very different there.

And...

But what it taught me in terms of holding the family, that a woman can hold the strength, the capacity to be a provider, be caring for the family, but she shouldn't.

Oh, absolutely.

And to be honest, I think that's probably one of my biggest superpowers that I just don't close my heart off.

Yes, it gets hurt.

It gets hurt, but I don't close my heart.

You can see like I'm, you know,

I'm a lover girl.

Yeah.

Um, no.

I think it was easy in the 20s because you don't know what's at cost on the other end if it doesn't work out.