I have been on this site for many years. I previously wrote under the user Burning Candles. However, after six years on this account - and almost a decade of writing fanfiction as a whole - I have decided to give it up.

I am not doing this with ease, because this is something that I once enjoyed and have met many beautiful people through this site. It was an escape and a safe place in my life during a very dark period.

But times have changed, and I have changed as an individual. I am no longer the thirteen-year-old girl I once was. I will be twenty-three in May and this is no longer how I wish to portray myself. Those of you who have been around since the beginning have read as I've gone through puberty, fallen in and out of love, graduated high school, and gotten married.

The reason I'm telling you this is because I'm still getting alerts. You guys are still reading and following these stories and me as a fanfic writer. And I am both flattered and humbled. But I don't believe the content I've put out is something to be proud of. It's not the quality of the writing but rather, the content.

I can't go on writing certain things when my heart has changed so much. And it would be wrong of me not to share with you the reason as to why my convictions have changed. Some of you might already know, but I have found a life greater than what I was living.

I have found love and acceptance in Jesus Christ.

And no, I haven't fallen into the hands of some primitive cult and lost my free will. I haven't changed my personality or signed my life over to some authority here on earth. But rather my heart has changed and I know that the themes I was playing a part in, are no longer cohesive to the life I am trying to live now.

But this is a story, perhaps, for another time.

For now, this is good-bye. I love you guys. And I am so thankful for the outpouring of love and support that I have received in this near-decade of my life. But all things must come to an end.

You guys are so spectacular. And beautiful. And even though I may not know you in real life or even had a conversation with you, I do truly mean it. I love you with my whole heart and I pray you guys go on to do amazing things.

Because you matter.

With all my love and affection,

Ana