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Sherry Reed's Influence On The American Dream
Sherry Reed's personal mission is to inspire, uplift, and encourage other women to never give up on themselves. Sherry wants to be a voice for everyday women that think life is just too tough. Sherry aims to empower women and young girls, so that they know it's alright to fall, as long as you get back up bruised but not broken. She is passionate about giving to others and being a servant. Sherry is able to provide true life testimony of homelessness, rape, teen motherhood, depression and so many other life changing subjects.
Who She Is
Outspoken and motivational from an early age, Sherry Reed‘s intrepid spirit has always been her guiding light.
A childhood mired by tumultuous and unstable environments, she was thrust in and out of the pot
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She was determined to find more, to be loved and have better. Better wasn’t always obtainable and by the age of 14, Sherry became an empty spirit, residing in foster home after foster home. One of the low points of her journey she was sexually assaulted at gunpoint for the second time.
Sherry was determined to change this vicious cycle that was going on in her life, she was always going to keep a childlike exuberance and a smile on her face. On the darkest of nights her light of hope would never go out because she had the will to survive. No matter how many foster homes she entered and exited, there was not going to be anyone or situation there strong enough to break her. Sherry was determined to do more, be
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The only thing strangers noticed about her was a beautiful smile camouflaging a never-ending scar. During this time of missing what was familiar, family, friends and a beautiful daughter, she gave birth to a new day; a son.
Being nineteen years old and with two kids, made Sherry wonder what was going to be her next move and as depression sat in the answer was the unthinkable; trying to take her own life. She was at an all-time low trying to commit suicide, and to this day relives that moment time and time again. She may have been able to escape the jaws of death but the demons were still lurking in her soul as a reminder and followed her back to Georgia to settle in for years to

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