Smiley,

There are some really good words people have shared with you. All that I can add is to encourage you to continue your education, always save plenty of money, be a good citizen, wife, daughter, mother, friend or just be a stand up individual. Be true to thine own self and the rest will follow.

Parents and others, in their own time, will come to respect you for you, if you do the right things. One can only hope to be thought of by their honorable deeds so that's good reason to be a good person.

Your sexuality is part of who you are, but it isn't who you are. That my dear, is how you live your life, day in and day out.

Work hard, play hard, love beautifully!