title: The Eggshell Path: A Story of Survival
author: Valerie Paget-wilkes
description: Valerie Paget-Wilkes grew up in Salisbury, England and moved to Zambia after completing her nursing training in Bristol. In 1977 she moved with her husband and two daughters, first, from war-torn Zimbabwe to Belize in Central America where her third daughter was born, then to Costa Rica, finally settling in Florida in 1984. She now lives in Virginia.
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  Copyright © 2020 by Quirah Casey
  
  
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  For those of you who just don’t give a fuck at this point.
  
  
  Welcome to the club.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She was a wild one;
  
  
  Always stomping on eggshells
  
  
  that everyone else
  
  
  tip-toed on.
  
  
  -Kaitlin Foster
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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