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There was a time when I stopped writing. Not because I ran out of ideas. Not because the stories stopped coming. But because I felt like I had to choose. For a while, I felt caught between two worlds: my professional life and my identity as a writer. At work, it often seemed like being an author was looked down on. People accused me of promoting my books just because I answered questions when they came up. What started as something I loved began to feel like something I had t

There is a question that follows me into every story I write: What do people become when they are forced to choose? Not easy choices. Not obvious ones. But the kind that tests identity. Loyalty. Survival. The kind that reveals who we are when comfort is stripped away. Before I understood it intellectually, I felt it emotionally. From a young age, my grandmother poured into me and my dreams. She provided me with the tools I needed to be successful, but more importantly, she fo