LIAM
Whenever I wake up and see the person lying next to me, each morning I have to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming, I am awake, and that it's all real.
That the man I had given up on, the love I thought was never going to have, is here with me, next to me because sometimes miracles don't exist, it's just a fragment of our mind, that's always hoping.
But he is real, he is here with me now and some days like today I can't believe that it's real.
I was born in a family, a household that was ruled by a dictator, with too many secrets, abandonment, and wounds that will take lifetimes to heal. I am now a father of three, something I still am coming to terms with.
I never thought any of this could happen to me. At best, I thought that I would die one day in a ditch somewhere after being gutted down by the person I was fighting with for the night.