One day it will all be a distant memory, Laurel, yet I can tell you now, with the supreme confidence of someone who's gone ahead in time to know, that you'll look back on this life and be so flush with love and admiration for yourself, your journey, and who it made you, that you'll wonder, as I do now, how it could possibly have escaped you then.
Maybe this will help.
Your greater-self,
The Universe
You rock, "Mini-Me-Laurel," you so rock. And it's never too early to see it.