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About Me — Anggun Bawi
An Indonesian girl from a small island called ‘West Borneo’
Many people on Medium have known me as that ‘relationship writer’. In the previous company I worked for, one guy asked why I was obsessed with this whole dating and relationship stuff.
What’s in it for me? What made me want to make my career revolve around it?
I thought about it for a while but realized the answer was a lot more complicated.
If you’ve been with me during my Medium journey so far, you know how fucked up my family was.
Well, it’s getting better, but some days, I still wish I didn’t go through it.
When I hit my 17th birthday, I already had 3 dads (1 biological and 2 stepdads) with several other men who were my mother’s ex-boyfriends.
People said my love life would be as messy as my mom’s. They told me to my face that “you’ll never find true love for what your mother did.”
She stole somebody’s else husband, by the way. At least, that’s the story that people in my hometown like to say.
Those whole experiences added up with my abusive father, have really messed me up. I became this weird kid in high school nobody wanted to be friends with.
And all I wanted to do…
