Laura Musse was born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 1955 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Currently, is a retired Adult Nurse Practitioner. She has been married to Rene Musse for the past 47 years and has four children and five grandchildren. Her story is more than a personal story. It’s a powerful testament to how her life took an unexpected twist when at age 62, she inadvertently discovers she was switched at birth. This began a two-year journey trying to find her biological family. In setting out to write and share her switched at birth story, past traumas slowly begin surfacing. Although painful to experience, she was able to voice and reaffirm feelings and emotions that never made sense. Slowly filling the gaps and blanks of her past experiences and what God allowed in her life. She continues to face challenges on a daily basis with her husband’s diagnosis of frontal-temporal dementia, slowly accepting the loss of her beloved husband while continuing to care for him daily. For her, faith, hope and choosing to be happy helps overshadow the ugliness of trauma, abuse, being switched at birth and the slow and painful reality of the loss of her beloved husband, who doesn’t remember her or the life they built together.