What Childhood Chapter 3 Part 2

The honeymoon is over.

What started as a new beginning quickly became a lesson in how fragile childhood really is.

In this installment, I share the day a simple walk to school changed everything. What should have been an ordinary morning became one of the defining moments of my childhood—one that exposed the cracks that had already begun to form beneath the surface.

But this chapter is about more than a single event.

It's about the adults who were supposed to protect us, the decisions that shaped our lives without our permission, and the questions I've spent years asking as an adult trying to make sense of a child's memories.

Some wounds heal.

Others become the stories we spend a lifetime learning how to tell.