Grab your daddy tissues, girls — Chapter One starts NOW.

I told you I was telling my story from the beginning, and I keep my promises. Time machine to Northeast Philly: the loving chaos, the perfect-little-girl checklist, my first soulmate — we're calling him Coolio — and the day a complete stranger in an art supply store broke my heart in a million pieces with three words: "That's his girlfriend."

This is the episode where 17-year-old me chose herself for the very first time. And it ends with a bombshell on the morning of my 18th birthday that you are NOT ready for. Chapter Two drops next Monday.

In this episode: • Time machine to Northeast Philly — loving chaos, Sister Helen, and 70 lates a year • The star who walked away — my dad's story (the part that's mine to tell) • The most important sentence in this episode: kids don't do what you say, they do what you allow them to watch • Coolio — the carved initial, the copycat girl, and why "boys will be boys, but girls better keep everyone comfortable" • The glove box — and the lesson my mom didn't know she was teaching me • "Who is Vicky?" — the art supply store showdown and the parking lot scream heard across the shopping center • The Wildwood summer that saved me, the neighbor, and the birthday morning that changes everything • It's all one story — Episodes 1 through 4, this is where it started

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