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Thanks for sharing this @marynikkel 💜💜: A story I first published 5 years ago now: I was standing halfway back in the room, resetting my camera, when a mom approached me. I could see her eyes bright with tears, so I moved closer to her so I could hear her. “Are you with the band?” she asked. “Kind of, I answered, a little hesitant. “I know them, a little bit. “They saved my daughter’s life,” she said. I dropped my camera and gave her my full attention. “I’m so glad,” I told her. She started to tell me, through tears, that her daughter had been planning to attempt suicide when she came across Skillet’s music. The songs met her where she was, gave her hope, lifted her out of the dark. “ just want them to know that,” the mom told me. “Could you tell them, if you ever get a chance?” I promised her I would. I told her it mattered. asked her daughter’s name so I could hold it with me, carry the story. She pointed her out to me, dancing and singing on the front row in a white dress. That story was the same story I’d been living in that room ten years before. I’d been the one who had been planning suicide, who had scarred up arms and a desperate spirit, who caught and held Skillet’s music as literal whispers in the dark-whispers that maybe there was more for me. Whispers that maybe I could survive into adulthood, against all odds. And when I saw my first Skillet show, with all those songs fresh and vital in my new steps into a recovering life, I stood on the front row and screamed every word in living defiance of the dark. #skillet #concert #songs #music #rocknroll #panhead #memories