I am thankful for all those difficult people in my life, for they have shown me exactly who I do not want to be.

Your threats did not scare me.  I am well aware that nothing posted on the internet ever really goes away.  You just motivated me to do something I have considered doing for some time now.

Time changes so much.  It changes people.  I am so very different now than I was when I felt compelled to re-visit my past and write it all down for the world to see.  It was therapeutic at the time.  Helped me through a period in my life when I needed to figure out who I was and who I wanted to be.

So much has changed in those few short years.  I am in a fantastic place now.  So very happy in my present, and do not long for the past.  

I am not ashamed of who I was, nor am I trying to forget it.  I am just putting it where it belongs.