Harter, Amanda

I was born and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. I am a mother, wife, daughter, sister and even a college student. But there is another name I carry, Survivor. I am a survivor of abuse. I have been sexual and mentally abused as child, and physically and mentally as an adult in a relationship. I would love to say the wounds are gone, but they never really are. They are long ago, physically healed but the mental still sneaks up on me every now and again. I first started with poetry when I was thirteen years old. Carrying so many emotions and not enough courage or words to express them. I w...