I Don't Know How Long It Takes to Survive

"I don't remember my first moment of being just me, just mery, all alone. I think i was only 12, though maybe younger 11, maybe or ten." "Sometimes you get to the point where surviving takes so much work that you begin to ask yourself if it's worth it," she says. 'You spend each day working, striving, fighting to live, only to wake up faced with another day you have to survive'