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Longtermsurvivor 1
Longtermsurvivor 1 CSN Member Posts: 145 Member
in Long-Term Survivors #1

The problem with being a survivor is we don't all have the same experiences, the same up the same downs, we have different losses, and for me to put our just speak for all survivors is wrong. I've learned that a long time ago, it changes the song in different ways. And it affects the family in different ways, some for the good and some for the bad, and many people don't understand that. Some people think we come out broken, but what we have learned from our challenges is amazing. Some of us never come back. That's the problem, we need to hear all the stories, just not one. Hence, we understand how to repair and replace, and improve ourselves. If you've never been in this spot, it's hard to explain, and it's hard to accept what happened. You cannot mentally imagine what it's like.

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