by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Jan 27, 2018 | Truthfairy Project
It was a dark and stormy night of the soul under heavy clouds of unknowing. The kind of storm that makes you drop the blinds and hunker down and think about candles in case power lines go down. The kind that makes you coulda-woulda-shoulda yourself about not buying a...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Jan 15, 2017 | Truthfairy Project
Seeing my father lying in a casket was as surreal for me as reuniting with him had been just the month before. Neither seemed real. Somehow, I still finished my last semester of high school. Trying to save my mother from being beaten by my father during a drunken,...
by Donna Syed | Truthfairy Guide | Nov 25, 2016 | abuse survivor, Truthfairy Project
I don’t think I’ll ever forget this day no matter how many years tick by. This date comes again every year but any other time, if you ask me the exact date I finally laid eyes on my father again, I can’t always remember except that it was just after...