Maggie gave me a piece of me, (an important piece of me), back that I thought had been lost forever, taken away, for many many years. What I saw in the photos, what Maggie portrayed in positioning and direction, is the person I felt I was always supposed to be.... Me. I saw confidence. I saw an attitude that says "so what". I felt like she really captured the Japanese proverb, "Fall seven, rise eight". I feel like Maggie showed me that I can go back to withstanding whatever comes next in life, that I can weather this storm and still rise to meet the next.

Maggie gave me back confidence.

And she gave me back hope.