If the world worked the way I’ve been told it works, then:

• My dyslexia would have stonewalled my ability to learn.
• My best years would have occurred in high school.
• I wouldn’t be able to handle the pressure of the ‘real world.’
• I’d never be much more than a housewife.
• I’d be living back in Jerome, Idaho.
• I would still be married to a man who didn’t love himself, much less me.
• I’d never write for a living.
• I would get a job that I hated just to pay the bills.
• I would never dream of starting a business.
• I would always do what I’m told.
• I’d be ‘miserable’ like everyone else.

Glad to say the world doesn’t work the way I’ve been told.  It works the way I believe it should.

-Deborah Fike

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