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Fan hook. If you've ever looked back at an old version of yourself and wanted to disown her — this song is for you.
I have been a lot of different people in this lifetime.
There's the kid on the Sunset Strip. The bartender in the dive bar. The starving artist in the apartment with the broken window. The Nashville songwriter chasing comets. The CEO building the business. The woman who burned it all down and started over.
For a long time, every time I reinvented myself, I tore down the version that came before. I was such a mess. I was so lost. I can't believe I let myself live like that. I treated my past selves like rough drafts I needed to delete before anyone read them.
Then somewhere along the way, it hit me. Those women didn't ruin me. They built me. The mess was the renovation. The bad choices were the bricks. The mistakes were the framing. I don't get to be who I am now without every one of them showing up first and doing the dirty work.
I owe them an apology, actually. For trying to write them out of the story.
This song is me writing them back in.