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CHAPTER THREE: TELL ME YOUR STORY and raw. It’s also incredibly beautiful, colourful and warm. There is love and laughter, tears and heartache. Each day brings new lessons learned, unique challenges to overcome, and the opportunity to teach my little ones to love themselves, respect others, and to always be kind. At the end of the day, when I kiss them goodnight, I am usually exhausted, and overwhelmed. But as I watch their sweet faces drift off to dreamland, I am reminded to take a deep breath and enjoy each moment life brings us. Tomorrow is a new day, but it’s never a guarantee. I am a single mother of three beautiful children. Life is tough, chaotic, stressful, en. SUBMISSION 09 SUBMISSION 13 When I was young I took piano lessons at a music store. I saw that they were selling bagpipe “seasoning” (which Is for absorbing moisture). I asked my dad what that was for and he told me that when musicians are finished playing the bagpipes, they add some seasoning to their instrument and then eat them. I never questioned this until I was 15. Thanks dad. 46