My hope for you on this homecoming journey is that you create and cultivate a beloved community, a space in which there is mutual love, respect, and appreciation. Create spaces of ease, where you have nothing to prove and freedom to gain. Create spaces that are not built on shame and self-blame, but full of intentional mutual care. These spaces will affirm you and remind you that you matter. You need space where you can breathe and be yourself. You need space where people do not deny or minimize or oppress. You deserve space where you are seen and appreciated in the fullness of who you are,
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