#oh Junia my complex and stubborn little angel I wish you would give yourself a break

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Junia Cahill Mood Board

If a dark cloud looms over the Cahill family, Junia is the one caught in the eye of the storm.

She categorizes her life in two stages: the life she had before her mom died, and the life she had after her mom died. She couldn't tell you if the "before" stage was really as "perfect" as she recalls it being or if she's just romanticizing that time due to the years of loss eroding any of the negatives away... but she does know things were easier in the before, and everyone was happier. For one thing, she didn't have to navigate a disability in the before. She also could just be a happy child who dreamed of being an artist and not a jaded teenager obsessed with physical fitness - always thinking about protecting, about fighting, about being present enough to save the day so no one she loved would ever be hurt on her watch again. And while her dad has always tried his best, sometimes that meant being hands off and allowing her grandparents to take the lead...so losing one parent sometimes felt like losing two. But that was okay - she handled it and she's fine. She's always fine.

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