Excellent story, it is very good.

Some people manage to get a facade, wear a mask or deploy a shield, depends on what you want to call it, and thus show themselves strong and tough, invincible to the outside world; something that certainly helps them to be less vulnerable ... Less fragile, but even if everyone thinks and sees you hurt and hard as a rock, you will never be able to fool yourself. Your story reminds me a lot of the life that some of my favorite singers led.... Great musicians, songwriters with awesome lyrics, rhymes that felt and touched your soul. Some of them, showed themselves to the world as strong characters and role models as those who didn't care what anyone thought of them.... In the end, only they themselves knew their own inner struggle and the ghosts they dragged with them.

I enjoyed reading you. You are a good writer.