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No One Deserves to Have Their Life Pushed Off Track Forever by One Poor Decision
The simplest fact of life is that every person in the world makes mistakes.
No mistake needs to be unrecoverable. No person deserves to have their life pushed off track forever by one poor decision, their entire life affected by one cruel moment.
The Backstory
At seventeen, I ran away with the love of my life. I fled from Chicago, Illinois, to Cleveland, Ohio, against the advice of my mother, father, friends — even my enemies. I left my three-year-old son with my mom to pursue a career as a model. I wanted a better life for myself and my son.
Instead, thirty years later, after changing my thinking and dealing with my bad decision head-on, I am ready to comfortably retire as an Operations Vice President having worked at some top Fortune Fifty companies in the US and UK. Even now I recall how my past is a stark contrast from the life I achieved.
It turned out the man was a pimp, and my fellow models-to-be were prostitutes. I was slated to be the newest addition to the brothel. We all make mistakes, and that was my own. Seemingly fatal, yes? Years after I escaped from the pimp, I returned to Cleveland.
The Return
