Author: Aleena Irshad

The washing machine leaked, so I called a technician. He fixed it in half an hour and, as he was leaving, handed me a folded note, blushing. Inside, it read: “Thank you…

I do not even know how to start this without shaking. But I have to. Because what happened, what I survived, is not something anyone could make up. But I have to….

When I was ten, my mother left me in foster care, giving no explanation and never checking in. I grew up learning to survive alone, moving through foster homes, and eventually building…