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BY Victoria Lasbrey

How many scars are you hiding inside that dress? How many times do you have to put on a sunglasses when it's not that sunny?
How many scars are you battling with and it just refused to heal? For how long will you continue to manage and stay put..?

This picture was in early 2000 during a burial ceremony of one of my  In laws.

Behind that sunglass was a red swollen eyes and swollen lips with Scars hidden inside the blouse and lots of pain, but I put up a smile..

Some women are going through that phase of life I ran away from 6yrs ago. Today,  I am free! Free from marriage prison.

I hope to make a video of my true life story someday.  It hurt and break my heart seeing fellow women managing a man and a home for the love of their children.  Truly,  it's not easy to run. But I ran the day I realized that my mom left us and went to the great beyond when we were too young to fend  for ourselves.  And we all survived, but left with a loving memory to remember her with.  Thank God for a wonderful dad that guided us through our journey of life. My mom didn't die due to Domestic violence,  just sharing what gave me the courage that I can survive without a man.

So I asked myself,  if these women die, definitely their children will also survive.  So why die when you can leave  to live?

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