For everyone who said it couldn’t be done or think they can’t get an education this is for you.  I am 48 years old and the grandmother of fourteen and disabled.  The childhood part of my life was horrific, from mental and physical abuse such as beaten till I was purple or molested by family and their friends till I was married to being discriminated against at school and kicked out in the seventh grade and told not to return.  The road has not been easy.  I was a teenage mother at 13.  I was using drugs and had two children by the time I was 15.  I was married and had 3 children by age 17 and selling drugs.  School was not in my plans at all, neither was a relationship with God.  I believed there was a God and I read Revelations when I was young, but to know we had any power was beyond my thinking.  I was bulimic for 8 years and did not have a clue there was a problem with my eating or lifestyle habit. 

 

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