Table of Contents
Part One (2017 / ages 15 &16): Searching For & Reclaiming My Voice | pg. 1
My father and this dreadful world tried their best to mute me...
Part Two (2018 / ages 16 &17): Numbness All Throughout... Yet, I Had Found God | pg. 37
I return to my mother, but she wants little to do with me...
Part Three (2019 / ages 17&18): My First Love: My Salve & My Secondmost Significant Abandoner | pg. 81
I thought God gifted me my brightest blessing...
Part Four (2020 / ages 18 &19): The American Dream Isn't What It Seems | pg. 105
I move halfway across the world to introduce myself to the other side of my identity, that of my American side. Perhaps she will take me in?
Afterword | pg. 203
About Sammi Yamashiro | pg. 206