~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "Aunt Fiona? Wha- what are you doing here?" She hasn't visited or called since that day... "Don't worry, Emmelysa, everything will be alright." "What- what's going on, auntie? Who are these people?" "Everything's going to be fine." My head was spinning, and my vision became blurry. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~ This was my last memory at home. The last memory before being taken to the institution. That was almost 10 years ago. I wasn't even 12 when I stopped having contact with the outside world. Everything I knew, everything I believed in, were the values of a sheltered kid. When I escaped 8 years later, all I could think about and care about was how to survive. But those were all actions based on instinct alone and nothing more. I had no life experience, I didn't know how to