So, this necklace has been on me for about 7 years now. I have worn this necklace every day and even have my sona wear it. Some have asked the story behind it, so I thought it was time.

When I was a baby liolf, I grew up in a super religious school. Seventh-Day Adventist. When I was 13, I lost my father, along with a large amount of my family. Coupled with me trying to come to terms with my sexuality and being told it was wrong, I had a lot of struggles to overcome. A lot of questions that I was too afraid to even ask myself. When I finally did come out, it was later in high school and I got bullied a lot for it, but I survived sexual, physical and verbal harassment from students, as well as being humiliated and verbally abused by some teachers.

The necklace: One of the policies in our school was absolutely no jewelery or make-up. So, on my very last night of school, my father's partner (I was adopted at birth by a gay couple) presented me with this necklace as a graduation gift. A symbol of gay pride in a yin-yang separable necklace. To many, its just a necklace that I and my sona wear. To me, it represents who I fight: those who support me when I am backed into a corner and tail between my legs. To fight for those whose paws walk where I walked. And for those whose lives were cut short. It can also signify my duo species coming together as one being.

This, I wear as my dog tags, as a soldier of one, and for those whom I consider my friends.
It can also represent my duplicitous nature. One half lion, one half wolf. And in the middle, the missing part, a part of me that may never be completely whole (which is ok, because of the constant evolution that we all have in our lives. The opportunity and openness for change and evolution.)