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A Magic Mentoring Moment: “I’m So Proud of You”

October 26, 2018

“Through Girls Write Now I’ve found my voice!”  

These are the confident words spoken by mentee Gianny Guzman alongside her proud mentor, Hermione Hoby at our Day of the Girl Celebration.

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Gianny’s soaring confidence and beautiful words are captured in her piece entitled “What I Know” which is about what her family has passed on to her.

“What I Know”
By: Gianny Guzman

The fight:

You know what I’m talking about

You must know

Because you’ve always had to know

To know that everything you want will not be given to you without a fight

To know that no matter how numb you get, you must go on

Simply because that’s what I was taught to do

Your parents’ experiences:

You know what I’m talking about

You must know

Because you’ve always had to know

To know you should be proud of your generation

Even for its faults

To know that it has faults

That don’t have to define it

Or define you

 

Me:

I don’t think you could know

Because I’m still learning to know myself

What I knew about myself yesterday doesn’t apply to what I know right now

They taught be to hold my head up high

To be strong and feminine

And that it can mean the same thing.

To know that I will never be alone

But that it’s okay to be.

To know who I become

Who I am

Can only depend on myself.

To know how to find my place

Or create my own.

 

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