Dani There are a few things in life that define us. These are just a few things that will shape us and our future. Things that we will either survive or succumb to, letting them destroy us. Nothing has ever pulled me down far enough to destroy me yet. No matter what I've been through in this life, I've always survived it. But I would be a liar if I said I hadn't come close to giving up more than once. I lost my mother when I was twelve. I was sent to live with a father I hardly knew in a place I'd never been, a country he promised to show me one day. America. It was a massive adjustment. Living there was nothing like Tulum, Mexico. Tulum is a city on the Caribbean coastline of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It's beautiful, the beaches are out of this world, and the well-preserved ruins of

