Bent But Not Broken: Surviving Silence
“If you’re looking for exact dates, you won’t find many here. I’ve never been someone who could track life by the numbers on a calendar. I didn’t write things down. I didn’t mark anniversaries. Most days, I just struggled to live.
This memoir isn’t about timelines. It’s about truth. And the pieces I carried forward.
My memories don’t come in order. They arrive in fragments: the sound of the floor creaking, the sting of a sentence, the moment I held my breath for too long as the sound of a whistle lilted up to me. It’s about the memory of fear, sadness, and disappointment. And how those feelings have shaped me into the person I am today.
Don’t be fooled into thinking I’d want a different past. I am who I am today because of what I’ve lived through. Not in spite of it.
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