#KristaRomero #ArtistShimmer — Survivor, Mother, Builder, Creeker

Does This Help® — How We All Met Originally
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In the desert of my memory, there are a few years that changed everything — 1998 being the one that cracked my life wide open.

That was the year I became a survivor of domestic violence, even before I fully understood what survival meant. It was also the year I walked into an office at Omega Legal Systems, thinking I had simply gotten a receptionist job, not knowing I had just stepped into the story that would eventually become Kirton-Niner.

Back then, I was still Krista Romero — young, resourceful, tough, and already carrying more weight than most people ever saw. I was the receptionist; the one who greeted people with a smile even when my private world was cracking. Omega was supposed to be a stable place — a place to rebuild. Instead, it became the crossroads of everything that brought me to where I am today.

Because this is where I met Corey.

Corey was the controller at Omega Legal Systems — steady, responsible, quiet in that way men are when they’re observing everything. His Brother Marten worked in sales. I was the front desk voice of the company. Three people moving through the same building, not yet knowing that we were stitching together the first threads of a future family name: Kirton-Niner.

In those days, Corey didn’t know the depths of what I was living through, nor did Marten. Like many survivors, I learned how to keep functioning in the daylight while surviving the night. Domestic violence doesn’t always show itself as bruises — sometimes it shows up as silence, fear, isolation, confusion, and the slow erasing of a person’s identity. By 1998, I had already experienced far too much of that.

But something happened in that office — something that none of us saw happening at the time:

I met the man who would someday stand with me,
raise my children with me,
fight battles beside me,
and help restore the name I almost lost.

I met Corey John Niner.

The story didn’t unfold all at once. It took years, pain, resilience, faith, and every ounce of my spirit to rise out of what I had been surviving since I was a teenager. But Omega Legal Systems is where our paths first crossed, and everything that followed — the healing, the family, the covenant, the testimony, the Creekerhood — started in that building.

That’s why KIRTON.NINER.me exists today:
to reclaim the narrative,
to tell the truth that others tried to bury,
to make public what was once sealed in secret files,
and to show the world who I became beyond the abuse.

I am Krysta Kirton Niner.
Survivor since 1998.
Mother. Wife. Teacher. Builder. Creeker.
Child of God.
A woman who walked through fire and kept walking.

And Does This Help® exists for the same reason I still breathe:

To help others learn, heal, rise, and build their own Zion,
one truth at a time.