The day I lost everything (or so I thought)
November 11th 2016. It was a Friday. Donald Trump just got elected as the 45th president of the United States. My boyfriend and I had just broken up. A close friend of mine had just been hospitalized in the ICU after someone unloaded a gun on him attempting to end his life. It was not the best week of my life, and it was just about to get better. I was called into the principal's office for a "routine" coaching meeting. This meeting seemed unroutine since we never held these meetings in the presence of the principal, let alone in his office. Within minutes of sitting down across from my principal and adjacent to my coach, I knew something terrible was in the air. Their looks were very serious and in front of me on a table laid a document. They asked me how my day was and before I could answer I was told to review the document. Upon reading through it my blood began to race, my hands began to shake, and sweat poured over me. On the document were a list of three goals tha