So, the irony is not lost on me that today is January 13th, and a Friday. It was on a Friday, January the 13th that I made what may well be the biggest mistake of my life. I have two beautiful children from that mistake, but it was a mistake all the same, and in the many years that I lived, guilt-ridden in a home with that awful mistake, I too became an awful person. I made others sad, others that genuinely cared about me, and wanted to see me live a far better life. The toxicity of it all was so great, that I let myself be gaslit, let myself be isolated, torn away from family and friends, all for the sake of what was supposed to be 'til death do you part'. I know it may sound horribly cheesy of me to say, but that person, that thing that I was, horrible, toxic, and pushed by another to be paranoid, think the worst of others, and in turn be nasty and cruel before they could do the same to me; that person is dead. That is not who I am, and that is not who I have been for a very, very