“I never hurt a child in my life,” Mx. Tangee said, her voice soft and quiet. “Never would, never could. But that didn’t stop the world from trying to hurt me. I was the child that had to learn to travel alone. I was the child that had to watch every word, every expression, sight, sound, and speech. The world wasn’t always kind, was never easy, but I stayed as strong as I could, for as long as I could. Nobody wanted to help me, so I helped myself. And later, when I got older, I decided I would be the help I never got.”
