This is a question that I have asked myself a lot recently and I honestly don't know.

I know what I am and what I've been.

Daughter, sister, wife, mother, friend. These are all titles I hold and ones I wear with pride.

But WHO am I?

For so long I have been in the shadows, hiding to stay safe, pretending to the point even I believed the illusion I convinced everyone I was.

But WHO am I?

Can you lose yourself if you never found yourself, never had the opportunity to discover the depths of who you are because of one reason or another?

Fear was my reason.

Fear of reprisals, fear of rejection, fear of loss.

Fear is an insidious thing.

It lives and breathes and consumes your every thought to the point you loose even your voice because you even fear being noticed or seen at all.

So WHO am I?

Under the boisterous, confident, self assured persona I have cultivated is the shy, self conscious, voiceless being I have become but what lies beneath that? What is my core?

I want to find this lost self, this undiscovered woman, and bring her to the light.

Kicking and screaming, I want to drag her out of the hidden place she is and get to know her while discovering what makes her who she really is.

So, WHO am I?

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