When I was a child I rode horses. One evening I released a horse into the pasture. I watched her gallop away into the field under the sunset. For a moment I envied that horse and how she strided away with a sense of freedom.
Like the mare, I wanted to run loose, never to experience the pain of abuse or the feeling of forever being stuck and where no one could hold you down. The image will forever live in my mind as a representation of independence that took me years to achieve.

I will forever be that mare.
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