Sometimes we don’t realize how powerful the words of our parents are until we are adults and able to reflect on our childhoods. Unfortunately, for many adults they also in that same realization come to the conclusion that their parent(s) words affected them in a negative way. This fairytale begins like some we know, a balcony, a castle and some sort of princess figure. What is fake soon turns real when this teenage girl realizes that is the reality, she created in her head to avoid what was real, that her father had left when she was five and that her mother hates her and blames her for everything that has gone wrong in her life. In her reflection she talks about the night her father left, making sure she was old enough to remember him and for her to know how beautiful and perfect she was. But it is in the hateful words of her mother that over the course of her childhood transformed her into a teenager that drank, did drugs and spent as much time at other people’s houses as possible. The negative words of people we love matter, they have a lot of weight and sometimes when they are coming from a parent, they scare us for many years to come. A coming-of-age story about how negative words can affect us as much as physical abuse can. Both come with lasting consequences. But this young woman was forced to grow up fast and when it was time to say goodbye to her mother, she found that her father kept his promise, showing up on her eighteenth birthday hoping they can pick up where they left off. It may be difficult to understand the power what we say has, but in the eyes of a child their parents are the first people they trust, and words of hate can linger a lifetime.