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After a long and seemingly endless progression of educational endeavors, I find that in a week I will be a college graduate. It honestly seems like it was just yesterday that I decided to move up here to focus on completing the degree that would ultimately take me six years to finish, but that choice was the best choice I have made to this date. That one decision set off an amazing series of events that has led me to the place that I am today, I will admit that monetarily I do not have much but there is not a day that goes by that I don't wake up and feel satisfied and grateful for the bit of earth that I call home. I do not know what awaits me after I grasp that diploma, but that really doesn't matter, what matters is that I stay open to any path that the universe sets to take me on, after all forcing myself towards a destination I am not suited for, is just swimming against the current. I think of all the years that have passed by me while I searched for myself, I think that it took up until this point to realize I was capable of doing anything that I wanted to do and that realization came from finding my peace in this world. Along with my graduation from college, I will be a married woman in just one short month and that by far is something that I find to be perplexing, if only because I never thought I would get married. It seemed however that it was just because I had not found him yet, I had just bided my time with men who both inspired me and drained me, men who made me weak and then in return make me strong. I am grateful to have found Rich, the only true sense of home I've ever felt profoundly. To me being bound to him for life feels natural, like I have been tied to him since birth. I am proud of myself in this moment, proud of how hard I have had to work and proud for what it has produced. I am entirely grateful to all the spirits that be for this journey.