This is the man who came to my rescue when a counselor tried to convince me I closed my book to be here shirt. I cried so loud when she pushed me to take clothes off dolls and make them do things I didn’t want to make them do. He heard my cries and he ran in, scooped me up, and got me out of there. “I don’t ever want to go back” I told him. We never did. He is the man who held my hand in the hospital as I sat in a sterile room with a needle in my veins awaiting my abortion. I was 16 and so scared and so lost. I think he was a little lost too. But he stayed with me.