Sadly, some people endure unspeakable trauma during their childhoods. Physical abuse. Emotional torture. Sexual assault. No child should ever know such horrors but, alas, some do — and bear the emotional and physical scars for a lifetime. Fortunately, some traumatized children have remarkable grit and somehow get the help they need to cope as best they can. Some even manage to thrive beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. The British poet Lord Byron once wrote, “Adversity is the first path to truth.” Eighteen-year-old Jurity Calderon is on that very path.
Jurity Calderon recently graduated from Hope High School in Providence and plans to attend Rhode Island College.
