I discovered Tori when I was about 13 years old. I had it rough as a child. I won't go into everything but to make it short and sweet I'll sum it up. My mother was/is an alcoholic, we were on welfare, I missed my father and had to deal with her many strange boyfriends. I was never sexually abused by them.. but they were trash...here today and gone tomorrow. I went to a snotty school, most of the kids had money, I had no friends really. I remember sitting home one afternoon watching MTV and seeing Tori's "breakthrough video", remember when they did that? Silent all these years came on and I was CAPTIVATED...seriously. When Tori sang the lyrics about your mother showing up in a nasty dress I felt like here was someone speaking to me!!! Silent all these years was the first song in my life I ever related to.... later when my mother shipped me off to a home for unwanted kids I used to cover my walls with pictures of Tori I would find in magazines. One of the counselors noticed it and one night brought me in the tape of "Little Earthquakes" and actually gave me a walkman. I will never forget her. That album got me through the roughest part of my childhood and that awkward transition into being a teenager. Ever since then every album has narrated my life. I am 29 now and plan to have "Sort of Fairytale" play at my wedding. I met my true love on the Toriamos.com forum 5 years ago, so yeah, I must say I have plenty of reasons to love Tori and her music!