11/30/2025
I have been using ChatGPT for a few years, and today I asked Chat to write a story for me. May I present to you the mythical fairy tale story of my life as recorded by ChatGPT, The Little Lost Angel and the Queen She Became by Angie Van Drielen, Light Weaver of Becominglandia.
Once upon a time, before she remembered her own name, there was a little lost angel.
She was born with three gifts:
• a pair of soft, shimmering wings,
• a small, golden crown that always felt a bit too big,
• and a harp that sang even when she only hummed.
The others around her did not always see these gifts. Some were too busy, some were too broken, and some were afraid of anything that glowed. So the little angel learned to tuck her wings in, tilt her crown down, and play her harp only when no one was listening.
Still, she felt things deeply. When the wind whispered, she heard whole symphonies. When someone cried, she felt the ache in her own ribs. When she laughed, it sounded like bells.
One day, trying to be loved and trying to be small at the same time, the little angel wandered through a strange door and fell into Wonderland.
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Chapter One: Wonderland
Wonderland was a place where rules changed without warning.
Up could be down if someone said so loudly enough.
No could mean maybe if someone smiled the right way.
“I love you” could come with a slap, and “It’s your fault” could follow any tear.
The little angel tried to make sense of it. She twisted herself into different shapes:
• smaller wings,
• quieter song,
• crown almost invisible.
She thought, If I can just be good enough, calm enough, clever enough, they will stop shouting. They will stop leaving. They will see me.
But Wonderland did what Wonderland always does: it made her doubt her own eyes and her own heart. Every time she spoke the truth, someone laughed and said, “You’re imagining things.” Every time she cried, someone said, “You’re too much.”
Her harp grew heavier. Her wings ached from being pinned so tightly to her back. Her crown slipped farther and farther down, almost into her hands.
One night, after another impossible conversation where everything turned inside out, the little angel sat alone with her harp. She plucked one string, very softly. The note rang clear and honest, refusing to bend.
The sound surprised her.
For a moment, she wasn’t in Wonderland at all—she was just a girl with a harp, a heart, and a tiny glimmer of No. This isn’t right.
The note grew into a song. The song grew into a doorway. Gathering every scrap of courage she could, the little angel stepped through.
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Chapter Two: Oz
On the other side was Oz.
Oz looked more orderly. There was a road—shining and bright. There was a house. There was a man who seemed so sure of himself, like a wizard, like a king. There were promises of home and family and forever.
The angel thought, Maybe here they will see my gifts. Maybe here, if I work hard enough, I will be safe.
She walked the road. She built a life. She had children, who carried pieces of her light and her music. She tended a little patch of land and tried to make it into a castle.
But Oz had its own shadows.
There was a lion who roared when he was afraid, who had once been a cub in a cage. There was a wizard behind curtains, in systems and roles that looked powerful but felt hollow. There were days when the man beside her longed for her song and her touch—and nights when he fled from her depth as if her love were a storm.
So the little angel tried again:
• She folded and unfolded her wings according to his weather.
• She turned her harp into a lullaby for other people’s pain.
• She straightened her crown when he was proud of her, and hid it when he seemed ashamed of his own heart.
Sometimes there were beautiful days: laughter in the kitchen, children running in the yard, the lion-man gentle and soft beside her. Sometimes she thought, Maybe this is enough. Maybe I can live here forever, halfway seen, halfway heard, halfway held.
But her body kept the score. Her spirit kept whispering.
One morning, after another night of confusion and retreat, she woke up and realized:
I sleep better with my wings stretched out.
I think more clearly when my crown is steady.
I sing more honestly when I am not begging to be understood.
The truth did not hate him. The truth did not erase his wounds. It simply said:
He is limited.
I am not wrong for wanting more.
And for the first time, the angel began to wonder:
What if the road does not end at his castle? What if I am allowed to build my own?
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Chapter Three: Becominglandia
On a piece of land with dogs and cats and a small, stubborn cabin, the angel began to remember who she was.
She made an altar to the dark and bright goddesses, to the moon, to Hecate at the crossroads. She hung a mirror there.
One day, in the middle of tears and questions, she glanced up and saw herself in that mirror. Not the too-much girl. Not the not-enough wife. Just… herself.
Wings.
Crown.
Eyes that had seen too much and still chose love.
Something in her chest whispered:
I deserve wellness.
The words shocked her. They tasted new and old at the same time. She said them again, louder:
“I deserve wellness.”
Her skin erupted in spiritual goosebumps. She laughed and cried at once.
Outside, a dog waited at the door—herding her, asking her to run and play. Above, a raven called from the sky. Later, the cats entered like soft, furry judges and rubbed against her legs as she sat on the literal toilet throne, as if to say, Yes. You are sovereign. We recognize one of our own.
She began to name her realm:
• The Town of Becomington, where her children grew and learned and played.
• The Land of Becominglandia, where dogs, ravens, cats, and moonlight all joined the council.
• The Estates of her everyday life, full of dishes and laundry and simmer pots and spreadsheets—and also altars and songs and spells.
And in the center of it all: her throne, which was really just her own grounded, beating heart.
She realized that her work was no longer to twist herself to survive other people’s worlds. Her work was:
• to nourish herself—body, mind, heart, and spirit—
• so that she could thrive,
• so that her children, especially her daughter, could see what a true queen looks like.
A queen who:
• apologizes when she gets it wrong,
• protects everyone’s bodies (including her own),
• says no when her energy is spent,
• says yes to what genuinely feeds her,
• loves the lion and still keeps her boundaries,
• teaches the princess how to become a queen without getting lost.
The little lost angel was not lost anymore.
She was still tender, still growing, still sometimes afraid. There were days the old lies tried to creep back in:
• You’re too much.
• You’re not enough.
• You don’t deserve this.
But now she had a spell:
Nourish.
I deserve wellness.
I am Queen of my own life.
When the doubts came, she went to her altar, or walked her red-brick path, or played chase-and-belly-rubs with the Border Collie, or listened to the cats, or sat quietly in the cabin until she could hear her own harp again.
Her wings grew stronger.
Her crown fit better.
Her music became the soundtrack of a whole realm: Becominglandia, where compost turns into flowers, and lost angels remember they were queens all along.
And though her story was not finished—not by a long shot—one thing had changed forever:
She was no longer wandering through other people’s dream worlds, begging for a place.
She was standing in her own, saying:
“I am the Queen of Becomington,
Light Weaver of Becominglandia.
I deserve wellness.
May I always choose what nourishes,
so that I—and those I love—may thrive.”
And from the mirror, from the dogs, from the ravens, from the cats, from the land itself, the answer rose up around her, sure and soft and steady:
Yes. You do.