In an instant, joy turned to silence; but from that silence, we found the strength to rise and heal together. I never imagined something like this could happen. Five friends...
I combine my passion for nature and inclusion by using technology to enhance accessibility for the visually impaired. This effort led to the creation of Latin America's first birdwatching route for visually impaired people in the San Antonio cloud forest, home to 300 bird species.
One early morning, I recognized a horrible energy shift in my room and felt pain in my back, which left me unable to move. Fear consumed me as I grabbed my cell phone and texted my mom in the next room. I wanted to yell but could not. “Ma, she’s here; there’s something in my room,” I messaged her.
In one harrowing incident, my heart filled with grief as two severely injured boys lost their parents in a tragic air strike. Their desperate situation only deepened my sorrow. We tried to resuscitate one of the boys, but we could not save him as burns covered his body from head to toe. Beside him, his sister lay with a deep...
The first year felt unbearable. I struggled to see my children as mine, even though the constant pain from breastfeeding reminded me to care for them... Suicidal thoughts overwhelmed me as frustration took over.
The hacker began spreading the content among my acquaintances. During those moments, I felt hollow and disconnected from my body. It seemed as if time stopped. I felt no shame, just shock, unable to comprehend what was happening. When I finally snapped out of it, I called the police.
Any movement can cause layers of skin to rub together like sandpaper. Unlike most people who, if they bump into something they develop a bruise, my skin just falls off as if nothing holds it to me. If I fell going up a flight of stairs too fast and lost control, my skin would fall off and likely never heal...
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