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Her grandmother threw her out. She lived in a little 16‘x9’ shack by the roadside. I was born in that little shack.
God loves you and he cares about you; and he wants the best for you. You find freedom in his love through surrendering to him.
"He did cross the line, and I became a victim of what we now know as date rape. Thirty years ago that's really not what it was called. Since I did go into the bedroom with the guy, I blamed myself for many years..."
When my mother was pregnant with me she decided she didn’t want to have me
As the school year progressed I became deeper and deeper involved in the knowledge of gang life, and eventually made a decision to get ”Jumped in” to a gang, which means you get beaten for about one minute as an initiation ri...
At twenty-six years old I woke up one day and said, “That’s it. I’m done. Today is the last day I’m going to live. That’s it!” That day I received a phone call form somebody I hadn’t talked to in years.
I remember her beginning to cry. She asked me, “Before you leave would you mind to watch this video?” So she comes in and puts this video on and leaves a little box of Kleenexes next to me.
"When my mother told her that she was pregnant she took her to what we would call now a backwoods abortionist."