A Love Story:

How becoming an aunt changed my life

Patty Giannone
Introspection, Exposition
6 min readMar 27, 2021

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In the summer of 2003, my life came crashing down around me. I realize now that it had been slowly crumbling for well over a year. At the time, I thought there was no coming back from it. I was devastated and I just could not see a time where I would be okay again. Not only was my heart busted open, but my dreams, and all the goals I had planned, were shattered into a million…

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Patty Giannone
Introspection, Exposition

Freelancer, writer, artist, free spirit. Learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Forever the square peg in a round hole. Finally embracing it.