One year later I once avoided mirrors. Had that hateful look in my eye whenever I gazed down at the rigged, ugly scars of what a man once did to me. My heart was once fueled but raged and hurt that it even made me build walls so high, I didn’t know how to break them down. I became someone who believed I will be forever alone and that no one wants a broken person as a lover, girlfriend or wife. I was proven wrong. Life has it twisted ways of ripping out your soul and letting you walk through the darkness without having your back but then it all changes in a blink of an eye, and you find yourself standing in front of a mirror looking at yourself and admiring what you’ve become. Strong, independent and loved. Jaylin’s wedding was finally happening and with a lot of overthinking, th

