“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”
“I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.”
“This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.”
“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”