She said I was like a song. Her favorite song. A song isn’t something you can see. It’s something you feel, something you move to, something that disappears after the last note is played.
I won my first fight when I was eleven years old, and I’ve been throwing punches ever since. Fighting is the purest, truest, most elemental thing there is. Some people describe heaven as a sea of unending white. Where choirs sing and loved ones await. But for me, heaven was something else. It sounded like the bell at the beginning of a round, it tasted like adrenaline, it burned like sweat in my eyes and fire in my belly. It looked like the blur of screaming crowds and an opponent who wanted my blood.
For me, heaven was the octagon.
Until I met Millie, and heaven became something different. I became something different. I knew I loved her when I watched her stand perfectly still in the middle of a crowded room, people swarming, buzzing, slipping around her, her straight dancer’s posture unyielding, her chin high, her hands loose at her sides. No one seemed to see her at all, except for the few who squeezed past her, tossing exasperated looks at her unsmiling face. When they realized she wasn’t normal, they hurried away. Why was it that no one saw her, yet she was the first thing I saw?
If heaven was the octagon, then she was my angel at the center of it all, the girl with the power to take me down and lift me up again. The girl I wanted to fight for, the girl I wanted to claim. The girl who taught me that sometimes the biggest heroes go unsung and the most important battles are the ones we don’t think we can win.
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Amy HarmonYazar · 13 kitap
Amy Harmon, yazmanın yapmak istediği bir şey olduğunu erken yaşta fark etti ve büyürken zamanını şarkı sözü yazmakla hikaye yazmak arasında paylaştırdı. Buğday tarlalarının arasında, televizyonsuz büyümek ve eğlenmek için tek sahip olduğu şeylerin kitapları ve kardeşleri olması neyin bir hikaye olduğu konusunda güçlü bir duygu geliştirdi onda. Amy Harmon, muhteşem bir konuşmacı, bir ilkokul öğretmeni, bir ortaokul öğretmeni, evde eğitim veren bir anne ve Glayds Knight'ın yönettiği Grammy Ödüllü Saints Unified Voices Choir'ın bir üyesidir.
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