When My Son Noticed My Struggle — His Action Transformed Our Bond
At 42, I thought I had quietly faded into the background of my own life—until my 20-year-old son looked me in the eyes and did something I’ll never forget. This is the story of how one quiet weekend in a snowy cabin helped me rediscover who I was... and uncovered the truth I never saw coming.
If you’ve ever felt invisible in your own life, or lost in the role of mother, wife, or caretaker, this story might feel painfully familiar—but also, hopefully, healing.
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At 42, I thought I had quietly faded into the background of my own life—until my 20-year-old son looked me in the eyes and did something I’ll never forget. This is the story of how one quiet weekend in a snowy cabin helped me rediscover who I was... and uncovered the truth I never saw coming.
If you’ve ever felt invisible in your own life, or lost in the role of mother, wife, or caretaker, this story might feel painfully familiar—but also, hopefully, healing.
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00:00i was 42 fading into the shadows of my own life a stranger in a house i'd built with love that
00:07no longer felt like mine my husband michael hadn't looked at me really looked at me in years and i'd
00:13convinced myself that's just how marriage grows old but then my son nathan saw the emptiness i
00:19thought i'd hidden so well he took me away to a place where the snow fell soft and the world was
00:24quiet and in that stillness i began to remember who i was welcome to secret betrayals uncovered
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00:36and join me on a journey that changed everything a journey that started with a torn letter and ended
00:41with a truth i never saw coming have you ever felt like you're living for everyone else losing yourself
00:46in the process i did every night i'd sit at a dinner table set for one the silence louder than any
00:53argument michael was always gone chasing deals leaving me to scrub counters that didn't need
00:58cleaning clinging to routines that had lost their meaning i thought i was okay with it until nathan
01:04my 20 year old son looked at me with those steady knowing eyes and said mom let's get out of here for
01:10a while i didn't know it then but that moment was the spark that would unravel a betrayal i'd been too
01:16afraid to face stick with me as i share how a single weekend in a snowy cabin woke me up
01:21and how the secrets i uncovered changed my family forever if you've ever felt invisible in your own
01:27life drop a comment below and tell me about it your story matters and i'd love to hear it don't forget
01:33to like and subscribe to secret betrayals uncovered for more stories that hit close to home let's dive
01:39in my life wasn't always a quiet ache there was a time when laughter filled our seattle home when michael
01:46and i would stay up late talking about dreams mine to open a small art studio his to build a business
01:51that would give us freedom but somewhere along the way those dreams got buried under the weight of
01:56routine under the endless hum of his work calls in my own silence at 42 i felt like a ghost drifting
02:03through my own house unnoticed unneeded the dishes were always clean the laundry always folded but
02:09the woman who did those things she was fading and i didn't even realize how much until nathan my son
02:14looked at me one evening and saw it all i'd always been good at hiding every morning i'd wake up to
02:21the same rhythm coffee brewing the faint buzz of the radio and michael already gone his briefcase
02:26missing from the hall he was a financial consultant always chasing the next deal the next client the next
02:32city i used to wait up for him hoping for a conversation a moment to feel like we were still us
02:37but by the time nathan was in high school i stopped waiting i'd eat alone the kitchen clock ticking
02:43louder than my thoughts and i'd tell myself this was normal this was what marriage became after 20
02:48years i'd convinced myself i was fine that my role as a wife and mother was enough to fill the hollow
02:55spaces inside me but the truth was i was disappearing one quiet dinner at a time nathan was different at
03:0220 he was taller than me now with a quiet strength and eyes that seemed to see everything he was studying
03:08engineering at the university but he still came home most weekends filling the house with his laughter
03:13and his questions mom you okay he'd ask and i'd smile nod change the subject i didn't want him to
03:20worry i didn't want him to see the way i'd stare at the walls some nights wondering where the woman i
03:25used to be had gone i used to paint you know not just dabbing colors on a canvas but really painting
03:31bold strokes wild colors pieces that felt like they were spilling out of my soul i had a sketchbook
03:37full of ideas for a gallery a little space where i could share my art with the world but after nathan
03:43was born i put the brushes down there was always a diaper to change a school project to help with
03:49a dinner to plan for michael's clients my dreams got folded into everyone else's and i let them
03:54michael wasn't cruel that's what made it harder he wasn't the kind of husband who yelled or stormed out
04:01he was just absent his mind was always somewhere else on a spreadsheet or a conference call when
04:07he was home he'd sit in his study the door half closed the glow of his laptop casting shadows on
04:13his face i'd bring him coffee hoping for a glance a word something to pull us back together but he'd
04:19just murmur a thank you his eyes never leaving the screen i started to wonder if i was invisible to him
04:25if the woman he married had faded into the background of his life i'd catch myself
04:30staring at our wedding photo on the mantle the one where we're laughing under a cherry blossom tree
04:35and i'd think who are those people they felt like strangers like a story i'd read once and forgotten
04:41the nights were the hardest i'd lie in bed the house too quiet the space beside me cold
04:47michael would come home late slipping into bed without a word and i'd listen to his steady breathing
04:52wondering when we'd stop talking i'd think about the early days when we'd stay up until dawn
04:58planning our future dreaming of a life where we'd travel create grow old together now i was just the
05:04woman who kept the house running who made sure nathan had clean clothes and michael had his dry
05:08cleaning i told myself it was enough i told myself i was lucky a nice home a healthy son a husband who
05:15provided but deep down i knew i was lying to myself i was lonely and the loneliness was eating away at me
05:22piece by piece nathan saw it before i did it was a thursday evening one of those gray seattle days where
05:28the rain never quite stops i was in the kitchen scrubbing a pan that was already spotless when he
05:34walked in his backpack slung over one shoulder he didn't say anything at first just watched me with
05:40those observant eyes of his mom he said finally his voice soft but steady when was the last time you
05:46did something for you i froze the sponge still in my hand the water dripping into the sink i wanted to
05:53laugh it off to say i was fine but something in his tone stopped me he wasn't asking out of curiosity
05:58he was asking because he saw me really saw me in a way i hadn't been seen in years i don't know why
06:05that moment hit me so hard maybe it was the way he stood there so grown up so much like he'd been
06:10carrying the weight of my silence for years i tried to brush it off to tell him i was just tired that
06:15life gets heavy sometimes but nathan wasn't having it he sat down at the kitchen table his backpack still
06:22on the floor and said mom i'm serious you're always taking care of everyone else what about you his
06:29words were like a mirror forcing me to see the truth i'd been avoiding i wasn't fine i was empty
06:35running on autopilot living a life that didn't feel like mine anymore i opened my mouth to answer but
06:41nothing came out what could i say that i didn't know who i was anymore that i'd forgotten what it
06:47felt like to want something for myself the next day nathan came home with a plan there's this cabin
06:52in the cascade mountains he said his voice bright with an enthusiasm i hadn't heard in a while
06:58i went there once with my environmental science class it's by a lake surrounded by pines
07:04quiet mom you'd love it i started to protest i had laundry to do groceries to buy a thousand little
07:11tasks that felt like they defined me but nathan just smiled that same warm smile he'd had since
07:17he was a boy and said no excuses we're going just you and me i don't know why i agreed maybe it was
07:24the way he looked at me like he believed i could still be the woman who used to paint who used to dream
07:28or maybe i was just too tired to argue either way i said yes and that decision changed everything
07:34i packed a small bag just a few sweaters and my old scarf the one i'd worn when nathan was little
07:40and we'd build snowmen in the backyard the drive to the cascades was long but nathan filled the
07:45silence with stories his classes his friends the time he and his classmates got lost on a trail and
07:51laughed about it afterward i listened really listened and for the first time in years i felt a flicker
07:56of something warm inside me hope maybe or just the relief of being with someone who didn't expect
08:02me to be anything other than myself as we turned onto a winding road the city faded behind us and
08:07the world opened up pine trees heavy with snow the ear sharp and clean the kind of quiet that makes you
08:13feel like you can finally breathe that weekend was waiting for me though i didn't know it yet it was
08:18more than a trip it was the moment i started to see myself again the moment i began to unravel the
08:24secrets michael had been keeping the ones that would break my heart and rebuild it stronger but
08:29before all that it was just me and nathan climbing a mountain of memories finding our way back to each
08:34other and in that quiet cabin i started to remember what it felt like to be alive have you ever felt
08:40like you were living for everyone else losing yourself along the way drop a comment below and share your
08:45story it might just resonate with someone else watching and if you're moved by this journey so far
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08:56the truths we hide from ourselves the road to the cabin felt like a journey to another world
09:01as nathan drove the hum of the city gave way to the quiet of the cascade mountains where the only
09:07sounds were the crunch of tires on snow and the soft whistle of wind through the pines
09:12i sat in the passenger seat my hands wrapped around a thermos of coffee watching the world blur into a
09:18canvas of white and green for the first time in years i wasn't thinking about what needed to be
09:23done laundry dinner michael's schedule i was just there present with my son and it felt like a gift
09:29i hadn't realized i'd been missing when we arrived the cabin was exactly as nathan had described
09:35small weathered but warm like it had been waiting for us the air was sharp with the scent of pine and
09:41snow and the lake nearby sparkled under a thin layer of ice i stepped out of the car my boots sinking
09:47into the soft snow and for a moment i just stood there breathing it all in nathan grinned his breath
09:53clouding in the cold told you it was beautiful mom i nodded unable to find words because he was right
09:59it was beautiful but not just the scenery it was the feeling of being somewhere that didn't demand
10:05anything from me somewhere i could just be we hauled our bags inside and the cabin welcomed us with
10:10creaky wooden floors and the faint smell of cedar there was an old fireplace a faded plaid couch and a
10:17small kitchen table that looked like it had held a thousand stories nathan dropped his bag and started
10:22poking around pulling out pots and a box of instant noodles from the pantry fancy dinner tonight he teased
10:29holding up the packets like they were gourmet i laughed really laughed for the first time in what
10:34felt like forever it was a sound i barely recognized light and free like a piece of me i'd forgotten was
10:41still there that first evening we lit a fire and sat on the rug eating noodles straight from chipped
10:46ceramic bowls nathan told me about his camping trip with his class how they'd stayed up late telling ghost
10:52stories how he'd fallen into the lake trying to catch a fish with his hands i listened my heart swelling
10:58with every word because it wasn't just the stories it was the way he shared them like he wanted me to be
11:03part of his world i'd been so busy being his mother i'd forgotten how to be his friend what about you
11:09mom he asked his eyes bright in the firelight what was it like when you were my age i hesitated the
11:16question catching me off guard when was the last time anyone asked me about me i told him about my
11:22college days how i'd spend hours in the art studio painting until my hands were smeared with color i told
11:28him about the time i hitchhiked to a music festival with my friend sarah how we danced under the stars
11:33until dawn the memories poured out each one dusting off a piece of the woman i used to be
11:38nathan listened his face soft and when i finished he said you should paint again mom you light up when
11:44you talk about it his words hit me like a wave gentle but powerful i hadn't touched a paintbrush
11:50in years but in that moment i could almost feel the weight of one in my hand the pull of a blank canvas
11:56calling me back the next morning i woke to the smell of coffee and the soft glow of sunlight filtering
12:02through the cabin's windows nathan was already up standing by the kitchen counter pouring hot water
12:08into a mug made you some he said handing me a cup i took it the warmth seeping into my hands and we sat
12:15by the window watching the snow fall in lazy quiet flakes it was so simple coffee silence my son but it
12:22felt like everything for the first time in years i wasn't rushing wasn't planning wasn't trying to hold
12:28everything together i was just there and it was enough we spent the day exploring nathan insisted
12:34we try snow hiking and i laughed picturing myself tripping over my own feet i'm more of a city walker
12:40i said but he handed me a pair of snowshoes and a grin that said i wasn't getting out of it
12:45so we went trudging through the snow our breaths puffing out in clouds the forest was still the kind of quiet
12:52that makes you feel like the world is holding its breath nathan walked ahead pointing out animal
12:57tracks telling me about the time he and his friends got stuck in a snowbank his voice was warm alive and
13:03i realized how much i'd missed this missed him missed myself at one point we stopped in a clearing the
13:09snow sparkling like diamonds under the sun nathan turned to me his face thoughtful when i was little
13:15he said i used to watch you in the garden you'd sit there staring at the roses and i could tell you
13:21were sad i didn't know why but i saw it my throat tightened and i looked away blinking back tears
13:27i hadn't known he'd noticed i thought i'd hidden it so well the late nights the lonely dinners the
13:33way i'd pour myself into being a mother to avoid facing the emptiness i just wanted you to be happy
13:39he said softly that's why we're here his words broke something open inside me i'd spent so long
13:46being strong for him for michael for everyone that i'd forgotten what it felt like to be seen
13:51nathan didn't just see me as his mom he saw the woman who was hurting who was lost and in that
13:56snowy clearing with the wind whispering through the pines i felt a spark of something i hadn't felt in
14:02years not just hope but possibility the possibility that i could be more than the roles i'd played that i
14:08could find my way back to myself that night we sat by the fire again wrapped in blankets sharing
14:14stories in silence i told nathan about the dreams i'd had when i was younger opening an art studio
14:20traveling to paris learning to play the guitar he listened nodding and when i trailed off he said
14:26you can still do those things mom it's not too late i wanted to believe him i wanted to believe
14:32that the woman who used to dream was still in there waiting to be found as the fire crackled and the snow
14:38fell outside i felt something shift inside me like a door creaking open after years of being locked
14:43but even in that warmth there was a shadow i couldn't shake my phone buzzed on the table a text
14:49from michael late meeting tonight don't wait up i stared at the words the familiar ache settling in
14:56my chest it wasn't just his absence it was the feeling that something was wrong something he wasn't
15:02telling me i pushed it aside not ready to face it not yet this weekend was for me and nathan for the
15:08laughter and the quiet moments that were stitching us back together but deep down i knew the truth was
15:14waiting just beyond the horizon ready to unravel everything when was the last time you reconnected
15:20with someone who reminded you who you are share your story in the comments below i'd love to hear it
15:26and if this journey is resonating with you hit that like button and subscribe to secret betrayals
15:31uncovered for more stories that uncover the truths we carry that weekend in the cabin wasn't just an
15:37escape it was a mirror reflecting back the woman i'd forgotten how to be sitting by the fire i could
15:43still hear nathan's words you should paint again mom they lingered stirring memories i'd buried under
15:49years of routine i thought about my old sketchbook tucked away in a box in the attic filled with half
15:56finished drawings of landscapes and faces i'd never shared with anyone there was one sketch i'd done when
16:01i was 22 a self-portrait with bold confident lines a version of me who wasn't afraid to dream i wondered
16:08if she was still in there waiting for me to find her the next morning i woke early the cabin quiet except
16:14for the soft creek of the floorboards nathan was still asleep his steady breathing a reminder that i
16:20wasn't alone i slipped on my sweater and stepped outside the cold air sharp against my face the lake was
16:27still a perfect mirror of the snow dusted pines and for a moment i felt like i was standing inside one
16:33of my old paintings i closed my eyes letting the silence wrap around me and i remembered a day from
16:39my childhood running through a field with my friend sarah chasing butterflies laughing until we couldn't
16:45breathe that girl didn't worry about being enough for anyone he just was and in that moment standing by
16:51the lake i wanted to be her again nathan joined me later handing me a mug of hot cocoa you're up early
16:58he said his voice teasing but warm i smiled taking the mug and we walked along the lake's edge our boots
17:04crunching in the snow i told him about sarah how we'd promised to travel the world together how we'd planned
17:10to open a little shop filled with art and music what happened to that nathan asked his tone curious but
17:16gentle i shrugged the weight of the years settling on my shoulders life i said marriage kids
17:24responsibilities i thought i had to choose nathan shook his head his eyes steady you don't have to
17:30choose mom you can still have that life his words were like a key unlocking something i'd kept hidden
17:37even from myself i'd spent so long believing that my dreams were selfish that being a wife and mother
17:43meant giving up everything else but nathan saw it differently he saw me as more than the roles i'd
17:48taken on and his belief made me want to see it too we spent the rest of the day tidying the cabin
17:54not because it needed it but because it felt good to do something together i folded blankets he wiped
17:59down the windows and every small task felt like a stitch in a tapestry we were weaving one of connection
18:05and care that afternoon we sat on the porch sipping ginger tea watching the snow fall in soft steady
18:11flakes i felt lighter like the weight i'd been carrying for years was starting to lift i told
18:16nathan about a painting i'd once started a scene of a lake at sunrise all golds and blues i never finished
18:23it i said my voice quiet maybe you should he replied his smile encouraging i nodded not ready to promise
18:31anything but feeling the spark of possibility growing stronger for the first time in years i could imagine
18:37picking up a paintbrush again not for anyone else but for me but that evening as we sat by the fire
18:43my phone buzzed again another text from michael still at the office might be late tomorrow too i stared at
18:50the screen the warmth of the cabin fading it wasn't just the words it was the tone the distance the way
18:56they felt like a wall between us i'd seen texts like this a hundred times but this one felt different
19:02heavier like it was hiding something i set the phone down my hands trembling slightly and tried
19:07to focus on nathan on the moment but the shadow was there growing whispering that something was wrong
19:13i didn't know it yet but that text was the first crack in the truth i'd been avoiding the truth that
19:18would change everything have you ever had a moment that made you want to rediscover a passion you'd left
19:23behind share it in the comments below i'd love to know what sparks your soul and if this story's
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19:34uncover the truths we've buried the shadow of that text lingered but i pushed it down
19:39not ready to let it ruin the warmth of the cabin that weekend had given me something i hadn't felt in
19:44years a sense of myself a glimpse of the woman i could still be but the world doesn't wait for you
19:50to catch your breath and the truth i'd been avoiding was about to crash into my life like a storm
19:56it was late on our last night in the cabin the fire dying to embers when my phone rang sharp and
20:01jarring in the quiet i glanced at the screen an unknown number my heart sank nathan's name flashing
20:07through my mind but he was right there asleep on the couch i answered my voice trembling hello is this
20:15laura bennett michael's wife the voice was deep urgent unfamiliar i'm calling from seattle general
20:21hospital your husband collapsed during a meeting he's in the cardiology unit now can you come right
20:27away the words hit me like a punch stealing my breath i managed a shaky i'm on my way and hung up
20:35my hands shaking so badly i could barely hold the phone nathan stirred rubbing his eyes mom what's wrong
20:42i told him my voice barely above a whisper and his face hardened with worry let's go he said grabbing
20:48our coats the drive back to seattle was a blur the dark roads lit only by the amber glow of street
20:55lights my mind spun with questions was michael okay had there been signs i'd missed why hadn't i noticed
21:02but beneath the fear was something else something i couldn't name a feeling that this wasn't just about
21:07his health that something deeper was wrong i gripped the steering wheel my knuckles white and nathan sat
21:13beside me silent but steady his presence the only thing keeping me grounded at the hospital i rushed to
21:19the waiting area the sterile smell of antiseptic burning my nose nathan stayed close his hand on
21:26my shoulder a young doctor emerged pulling off his mask he's stable now he said it was a stress-induced
21:34episode but we got to him in time i nodded relief flooding me but my heart still pounded when they let me see
21:40michael he was lying in a hospital bed pale and exhausted tubes snaking from his arm i stood by
21:47his side searching his face for the man i'd married but all i saw was a stranger then as i reached for
21:53his chart a nurse handed me his phone it had been buzzing non-stop i glanced at the screen and my world
21:59tilted a string of messages from someone named emily i'm so sorry michael i didn't mean to push you
22:07please just rest another i love you we'll figure this out my stomach churned the words blurring
22:14through tears michael wasn't just distant he'd been sharing his heart with someone else someone
22:20who wasn't me i set the phone down my hands shaking and looked at him he was awake now his eyes meeting
22:26mine and in that moment i saw guilt raw and undeniable who's emily i asked my voice steady despite the storm
22:34inside me michael looked away his jaw tight laura i'm sorry he whispered it's not what you think
22:41but it was exactly what i thought emily was a colleague he said someone he'd grown close to over
22:46late nights at the office it wasn't physical he insisted but emotional a connection that had filled
22:52the gaps we'd left in our marriage i listened my heart breaking with every word not because of emily
22:58but because of what it meant i'd been invisible to him not just as a wife but as a person i left
23:04the hospital room needing air needing space nathan was waiting outside his face tight with worry
23:10mom what happened i couldn't speak couldn't find the words to tell him his father had betrayed us both
23:16instead i leaned against the wall tears streaming down my face and he pulled me into a hug his arms strong
23:22and steady we'll get through this he said and i wanted to believe him but all i could feel was
23:27the weight of the truth heavy and sharp cutting through the life i'd known the hospital was just
23:32the beginning the betrayal wasn't just michael's it was mine too for letting myself fade for believing
23:38i didn't deserve more the next morning i drove home alone nathan staying with michael to help him settle
23:45i needed time to think to process the ache of what i'd learned when i walked into our house
23:50it felt different like a stage i'd been performing on without realizing it the wedding photo on the
23:56mantle the coffee mugs in the sink the silence it all felt like a lie i sank onto the couch pulling
24:02a blanket over my legs and let the tears come not just for michael but for the woman i'd let myself
24:07become that afternoon i called sarah my childhood friend the one who danced with me under the stars all
24:13those years ago she met me at a coffee shop her familiar smile grounding me laura you're still in
24:19there she said her voice firm you've just been hiding i told her everything michael's absence
24:26nathan's compassion the messages from emily she listened her eyes soft but fierce you don't have
24:32to stay in a life that's making you disappear she said you can start again paint travel be you her
24:40words echoed nathan's and for the first time i started to believe them when michael came home from
24:45the hospital the air between us was heavy fragile he was on bed rest the doctor's orders strict and
24:51i moved through the motions making his meals checking his medication but i wasn't the same
24:57i couldn't be one evening i sat across from him in his temporary office the silence stretching between
25:03us did you ever realize how lonely i've been i asked my voice calm but raw he looked at me really
25:10looked at me for the first time in years yes he said his voice breaking but i didn't know how to fix
25:16it work was all i felt good at i laughed a dry hollow sound what about me what about nathan he didn't
25:25have an answer not at first but then he said i thought i'd lost you laura i thought you didn't need
25:31me anymore my chest tightened because part of me had believed the same that i didn't need him that
25:36i could keep going alone but the truth was i'd lost myself long before i lost him we talked that
25:42night really talked for the first time in years no promises no grand gestures just honesty it wasn't a
25:49fix but it was a start have you ever had to rebuild after a betrayal whether from someone else or from
25:54yourself share your story in the comments below it might inspire someone else watching and if this
26:00journey is resonating hit that like button and subscribe to secret betrayals uncovered for more
26:05stories that uncover the truths we face the weeks that followed were quiet but not the heavy quiet
26:11of before michael worked from home his laptop no longer a wall between us we started small coffee
26:17together in the mornings a few words about the day it wasn't love reborn not yet but it was recognition
26:23a willingness to see each other as people not roles i started painting again setting up a small easel in
26:29the garage where the smell of oil paint and turpentine brought me back to life my first piece was that
26:35lake from the cabin golds and blues spilling across the canvas a reminder of the weekend that woke me
26:40up nathan was my anchor he'd come home from school sit with me while i painted and tell me about his life
26:47his classes his dreams his worries one evening he asked mom are you and dad okay i paused the paintbrush
26:54still in my hand we're trying i said honestly but i'm okay nathan because of you he smiled that same
27:02warm smile and i realized he wasn't just my son anymore he was a young man who'd seen my pain and pulled
27:08me out of it one night the three of us sat at the dinner table eating pasta and toasted bread the kind of
27:13meal that's nothing special but feels like everything michael reached for my hand his touch tentative and i didn't
27:19pull away nathan watched us his eyes soft and for the first time in years the silence wasn't heavy
27:26it was warm like the opening notes of a song we were just beginning to write i didn't know what the
27:31future held whether michael and i would find our way back whether nathan would leave for his own life
27:36but i knew one thing i wasn't invisible anymore i was laura and i was enough this journey wasn't
27:42about fixing everything it was about seeing the truth about michael about myself about the family we'd
27:49built and almost lost standing in the snow that weekend i learned that healing doesn't come from
27:54erasing the pain or pretending it never happened it comes from facing it from choosing to live for
27:59yourself even when it's hard i'm still painting still finding my way but i'm not afraid anymore
28:05i'm not hiding and that's enough to call it a new beginning the scariest thing isn't the betrayal
28:11we uncover it's the moment we realize we've betrayed ourselves by staying silent too long
28:16but if we're brave enough to face that truth to look in the mirror and see the person we've been
28:21hiding we can start again this story isn't just mine it's for anyone who's ever felt lost in their
28:27own life who's ever wondered if it's too late to be themselves snot you're still there waiting to be
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