Hello readers I am Cassandra Marie Khulenberg. My friends call me Cassie, for short. I am 14 years old and in the ninth grade. I go to loveland schools. I understand that you don't want to read a book written by a mere child, but please, I am more capable of writing a book than you think. I have also experienced more things than people in there mid 30's have in their life-time. I have loved, lost and encountered ideas of suicide in ways that are unimaginably painful. I have had humiliating and horrible things happen to me but here I stand today, proud of who I am. For those of you who don't know what to do anymore, I feel your pain. For those of you who dont know who they are, only time can reveal the answers to your questions.

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Who am I really? I am a 14 year-old girl who can take good care of herself. I am in love with the angel that I have found that I know God sent here for me. I am young but well experienced in life. I, along with many others, used to seek wisdom, but now I only find it in my mistakes as life goes on. I think those who seek wisdom, aquire it more slowly than those who wait for it. I have been used, abused, and most likely anything you could imagine. I love who I am. But like my favorite song says, "Who I am hates who i've been". If you dont like me, then ok, I am me and you are you, and I believe thats all that really matters in life. Now, if you still don't want to listen to me, then so be it. I am only here to help those of you who are willing to read my book.

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This my dears is only an introduction of what you are bound to now believe. I hope you enjoy reading this, for it is a story of my life, of which I am just now finding the truth about.