You would really have to meet my friend. She is a fellow veteran who as we sit here and talk is currently at a local hospital by her own choice. I cried for her for hours afterwards not for my loss but for for the reason I did not know what to do to help her.
She has been abused, abandoned, assaulted and mistreated most of her life. She has never received support from family or friends and copes with all these emotions the best way she knows how. This is the part that literally breaks my heart and causes my tears to fall because that is not who I see when I look at her.
The woman I see is one who is an awesome mother whose child is never fussy, dirty, hungry or crying yet is smiling, grinning and wonderful child. Next is I am friends with the most vivacious woman who is beautiful, considerate of others, kind, caring, intelligent, funny person I have ever met.
Because of all this I am dedicating myself to just being her friend and listening to watch she is saying even when I do not understand. I am here, while she is getting the acute help she needs, trying to learn as much as I can about her situation.
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