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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARESSNESS POEM & SONG "I SURVIVED to TELL my STORY " BY QUEEN VISIONARY ANGELA THOMAS SMITH · DA CREW Podcast

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: For every survivor, this.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Is for you, still here.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: Still rising.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: May 7, 2014, I remember that day.
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: My life could have ended, but God made a way.
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: I saw it all shot by that point blank range.
• 0:37
  Speaker 3: But grace stepped in and turned the course of things.
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: Fear tried to break me. Pain tried to bind.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: Trauma tried to steal my peace in my mind. But
• 0:47
  Speaker 2: I'm still breathing. I'm still here. God turned my ashes
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  Speaker 2: into power through tears. Many didn't make it We honor
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: their name.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: We carry their voices Remember their pain.
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  Speaker 4: For every survivor Still standing strong This is our anthem
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  Speaker 4: This is our song I survived To tell my story
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  Speaker 4: I survived Giving God the glory I am still here
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: I am still standing I.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: Am still healing I am still becoming I survived I
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: am still here. I am still standing. I am still healing.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: I am still becoming.
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Domestic violence tried to silence me.
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: Now my voice is breaking others. I'm not what happened.
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: I'm who God called a survival warrior still standing tall.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: 12 years and counting.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: I made it through. And if I survive, there is
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: hope for you. You are not alone. You are not
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: to blame.
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  Speaker 1: You deserve love without fear or shame. You deserve safety.
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: You deserve peace. You deserve a life where your soul
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: can breathe. Break the silence. Tell the truth. Save a life.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Protect our youth.
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  Speaker 2: We stand together. Hand in hand.
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  Speaker 4: Survivors rising across this land.
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  Speaker 2: I am still here. I am still standing. I am
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: still healing. I am still becoming. My story is not old.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: My purpose still lives Every breath I take Is a
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  Speaker 1: gift God gives From survivor A storyteller I boldly decree
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  Speaker 1: To tell my story And my story sets me.
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  Speaker 5: Free If you are in immediate danger Call 9-1-1. National
• 3:33
  Speaker 5: Domestic Violence Hotline.
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  Speaker 1: 1-800-799-723.
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  Speaker 3: Text up to 87788. The Hotline, boy.