off-script

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Many girls fantasize about their futures: a loving family dream job and a house with a white picket fence. These dreams often turn into expectations for happily ever after.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>For Valerie Cantella childhood hopes of a soul mate children and a fulfilling career turned into a script ... written and edited to perfection. But life didn't follow her plan. No matter how hard she tried.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Over the next twenty years life unraveled. A lifelong battle with Type 1 diabetes the unfolding trauma of mental health crises with a special needs adopted daughter and her husband's struggle with alcoholism shattered her childhood dreams. And nearly crushed her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nearly.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But sometimes an off-script journey takes you through the unimaginable to where you were meant to be all along-amid hope and healing.</span></p>