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In this powerful debut episode of Unwritten, Nefertiti Thomas takes us back to the moment her childhood ended. Through visceral storytelling, she recounts her return from Chicago to the dry, unforgiving landscape of Desert Hot Springs—where hope was scarce and cruelty felt like routine. With raw emotion and poetic clarity, she shares the heartbreaking memory of burning her childhood journals, the early betrayal by her mother, and the silent vow that would shape her creative journey for years to come. This episode explores the cost of survival and the quiet beginnings of self-reclamation.

Laserdisc by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/honor/

Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

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