It's not easy to stand alone. But it's harder to compromise your very essence striving for the unattainable approval and expectations of others. The world will threaten, mock and abuse to contain the free spirit. Yet some people will not be cancelled, cowed nor silenced. And despite their vulnerability they seek authentic and transparent honesty, whether the world likes it or not. Through our tears and our laughter, we each journey onward until it is over, teaching, learning from and inspiring one another by the telling of our stories.