The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. -Moulin Rouge

I thought about that quote everyday day before I closed my eyes and fell asleep. Sometimes I found myself awake for hours fantasizing of what it would be like for someone to actually love me. My entire seventeen years have been spent endlessly desiring what it would feel like to love and be loved in return. Just a glimpse of pure, sanctified affection would fulfill the numbness and repair the wounds inflicted on my heart for more than a decade.

All a foster child ever dreams about is to love and be loved in return.

I was given a tour of Saint John’s Divine cathedral two days ago. To have something so striking and beautiful within my reach and visible to my unworthy eyes is something that I will never forget. As I gazed in awe at the vibrant stained glass windows and Gothic architecture it came to me. THIS was what it must be like to be in love. My fingers ran across the 250 year old limestone charred from a fire that happened some 100 years ago, and it not only tickled my fingertips, but my very soul.

Know How received generous funding with the help of a short trailer to get people inspired to donate. Get an idea of how it all began below with footage from some of the original musicals put on by the Possibility Project's foster care youth.