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Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.

I feel like I died as a child.

Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was riding an emotional roller coaster most of the time. Looking back, I'm actually amazed that I survived. Barely.

I've always believed in survival.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.