This episode begins the final chapter of my foster care story.

Graduation week was more than a ceremony. It was the collision of everything that had shaped my adolescence. Family dynamics that were layered and complicated. Milestones that felt both earned and fragile. Independence that looked confident on the outside but felt uncertain underneath.

In this episode, I share what it was like to stand at the edge of adulthood while still carrying the weight of everything behind me. From job interviews and moving into my first apartment to reunions years in the making, this chapter captures the emotional tension between freedom and grief.

Because graduation was not just the end of high school.

It was the closing of one chapter before the system stepped back and adulthood fully began.