My Reality
I learned early in life to read a person, a room full of people, and beyond their masks.
I did it to survive and to protect myself.
So when I see or feel the attitudes, feelings, and even thoughts of others, it’s real, not imagined.
When I call it as I see, sense, of feel it is authentic.
The ability to morph into whatever a situation or person needs me to be is forever a part of who I am.
That is my reality, survival.
Pat Wade Nicholson
2026














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