Rachel Ratliff
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi Marcel —

I did write this article to and for my daughter. Of course, in publishing it online rather than just giving it to her, I’m hoping to disseminate my experience and thoughts to as many people as possible in hopes that a few will be touched by it and learn something about themselves or others. We all want to have some impact on the world, I’ve decided that storytelling is one of the ways I want to create more positivity and connection between people. Because of the way most online algorithms work, the more “clicks” you get, the more exposure your story gets, and the more people will have a chance to read it. This is a pretty common paragraph to put at the end of a Medium story (I copied it from others), and it is self-serving in the sense that I want more people to read my stories and be moved by them.

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