Child of the King! 🇺🇸 American Patriot, wife, mom, Mimi, sister, aunt, Friend, Dog mom, Survivor, I am a Spiritual being on a human adventure(until then)
Sixty-nine years ago today, one of my best friends entered the world.
None of us knew then how many lives he'd change, how many laughs he'd create, or how many perspectives he'd reshape.
Today, we raise our cups a little higher for @ScottAdamsSays.
To Scott ☕️
She was kidnapped first.
She suffered the longest.
And when another captive woman went into labor inside that house with no doctor, no hospital, and no help coming…
Michelle Knight delivered the baby herself.
With her bare hands.
But when the world learned about the horrors inside Ariel Castro’s house in Cleveland, her name was barely mentioned.
In August 2002, 21-year-old Michelle Knight was walking to a social services appointment when Castro offered her a ride.
Instead, he kidnapped her.
Locked her in a room.
Chained her up.
When she vanished, almost nobody looked for her.
Michelle came from poverty. She struggled with housing instability and a custody battle over her son.
Authorities quietly assumed she had simply “disappeared on her own.”
No major searches.
No national coverage.
No constant headlines.
Her case went cold almost immediately.
Then, in 2003, Castro kidnapped 16-year-old Amanda Berry.
The response was massive.
TV coverage.
FBI involvement.
Vigils.
Billboards.
The entire city knew Amanda’s name.
In 2004, he kidnapped 14-year-old Gina DeJesus.
Again, the community rallied around the search.
But inside the same house, Michelle had already been trapped for years.
She endured horrific abuse.
She became pregnant multiple times and lost every pregnancy due to Castro’s violence.
He repeatedly told her nobody was coming for her.
Then came Christmas Day, 2006.
Amanda Berry went into labor inside the house.
Castro threatened Michelle’s life if the baby died — then left.
Amanda was terrified.
Michelle had no medical equipment.
No training in childbirth.
But she stepped in anyway.
The baby girl wasn’t breathing when she was born.
Michelle performed CPR until the infant finally cried.
Inside one of the darkest places imaginable, a forgotten woman saved two lives.
In May 2013, Amanda escaped and called 911.
Police rescued all three women and Amanda’s six-year-old daughter.
The reunions flooded national television.
Amanda and Gina were embraced by the world.
Michelle walked out of the same house into a very different reality.
Even after surviving 11 years of captivity, she was often treated like an afterthought.
Later, she spoke openly about it.
Not with bitterness.
With honesty.
She wrote a memoir called Finding Me and explained the deeper pain of realizing the world had quietly decided she wasn’t important enough to search for.
Eventually, she legally changed her name to Lily Rose Lee.
A name she chose for herself.
A life reclaimed on her own terms.
Today, Lily Rose Lee advocates for missing people who are ignored because of poverty, addiction, unstable lives, or social status.
Her message is simple:
Every missing person deserves to be searched for.
Not just the ones society finds easier to care about.
Ariel Castro died in prison.
But Lily Rose Lee survived.
And the woman who once saved a baby in captivity now spends her life making sure nobody else is forgotten the way she was.
The Train Theory
You are the train.
Your life is the track.
And everyone you meet is either getting on for just a stop, for a few stations, or riding with you all the way to the end.
Most people don't stay for the whole ride, and that's normal.
Some people hop on, teach you something, love you for a moment, and then get off.
Others stay through multiple stations.
And very few become your forever passengers.
How we help Spencer Pratt…
Demand a full recount for transparency & fairness!
Any voter can request it—contact the LA County Registrar now before the window closes.
Every vote must be verified.
🚨 JUST IN: Socialist Nithya Raman has OVERTAKEN Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral election, despite Pratt’s previously sizable lead, per VoteHub
Absolutely RIGGED. This needs to be THOROUGHLY investigated.
Raman has conveniently received a WILDLY disproportionate amount of “late mail-in ballots” compared to both Bass and Pratt.
Pratt made an absolute FOOL out of Raman in the debates, even forcing her to retract her previous support of defunding the police.
God bless Spencer Pratt.