I have gone through soooo much in my short life span, sometimes it amazes me. But through it all i have had a tremendous faith in God. At times i steered away from him this is true, but he has always someway somehow let me know he is near and that he would never turn his back on me. For those who know me closely, you know i have dealt with depression for many years, i have fought through it and had great days and at times its overcome me and bought me down to my lowest. Up until a couple of years ago, depression was unheard of i mean what is it and where does it come from? when i was 12/13 there was no special kind of help for girls my age, we were just too young to have problems....Boy was society highly mistaken! First of all although i love my internet dearly, when AOL hit the world in the mid 1990's, it opened up the world to more crime than they couldve imagined. If pedophiles werent a problem before the net, they were about to be. Old men were posing as young boys for young innocent girls, and girls were starting to be killed,raped and kidnapped....it was crazy...and i was amongst it all.....Youd think after the first story posted of a 13yr old girl being killed by a man off the net that would stop me but it didnt...it did hit me tho i never knew this girl but i somehow felt connected with her i even cut her pic out of the newspaper and carried it for years, at the time i was 11....i could never forget her name Christina Long....i kept thinking that could have been me..talking to all of these men online telling them im 16 and i was 11, 12, 13....now and days girls bodies are maturing so much faster, so it wasnt hard to play the part. At that time Yahoo had chatrooms created by members and i guess it wasnt monitored because there were chat rooms that would specify "old man for youg girl" and at taht age we're not int othe boys our age because they just arent mature enough and here comes this older man that makes u feel special that makes u feel like its ok that ur 13 and have breast and have curves, and we fall into that and men know this....Christina Long was the first known internet related murder and it only got worse from there.......