woman of my heart and my soul, and I couldn’t live with
myself if I let her go again. It would be more than lying and
hiding. It would be cutting out a piece of myself that I know I
can’t live without. I hope that each and every one of you can
find someone who completes you. Someone you love more
than absolutely anything, even your own privacy, your
reputation, or your personal legacy. If you’ve already found
that person, then I hope you hold them tight, shower them with
love, and let them know how special they are. Never take that
for granted. I know there will be questions about why I made
the decisions I did in the past and when and how I knew that I
was a lesbian, but I don’t know that I have all those answers. I
do value my privacy and since there’s that saying that all we
have is now, I just want to be here now.
“I’m falling in love with a woman right now. I feel that she
could be my soulmate. She’s challenged me, she’s helped me
open my eyes. She’s taught me that being brave and being
scared can be done at the same time. She made me realize that
I’m more afraid of losing her than I am of losing everything
I’ve worked for in my life. It’s because of her that I know what
it is to feel, to live again, to want to be my authentic self. I
didn’t really know what that meant before, or if I did, I spent a
long time hiding from it. I’m happy to say that I’m here now
and it’s the truest place that I’ve ever been. For anyone else
who has lived through pain, who lives with that pain every
single day, for everyone who is scared, for all those fighting
battles that no one else can see, and for all those fighting
visible battles, for everyone hiding and for everyone living, for
those living with hate and judgement, and for all those who
choose to celebrate love and understanding and kindness, this