article_snippet.sent: It was worth the risk, the bad treatment and the fear, hard as that may be to believe.
article_snippet.sent: Simply put, I have a better life now than I did before.
article_snippet.sent: It was a funny thing to hear for the first time,
article_snippet.sent: But there was no going back
article_snippet.sent: My family didn't know what I was doing, but I dreamed of being a human being who is treated like one.
article_snippet.sent: I wasn't going to stop.
article_snippet.sent: And for the first time, I began to feel like I was in jail, trapped in conditions no human should ever suffer.
article_snippet.sent: I can still see it like it was yesterday; it was was the rebirth of a new life.