[Dance-with-me]

Moving to where I live now when I had no friends/support system and no job here, just a strong sense that this is where I was meant to be. The jobs appeared, the support system is still light but solid.

Leaving an abusive relationship, even when it meant losing the grandchildren I'd raised.

Making the firm decision to let happiness and joy in my life and letting go of enabling.

Agreeing to meet the butch who is now, I am certain, the love of my life.

Riding on the luggage rack of a fast-moving Turkish dolmuş (a minibus that runs like a cross between taxi and a bus) on a winding mountain road. Oh, wait, that wasn't brave, that was just being a damn fool teenager.