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I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #15 Read More

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #16 Read More

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #17 Read More

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #18 Read More

Rain hit the tall windows of Aunt Betty’s Victorian like it had a personal grudge. It did not fall in any soft, poetic way. It attacked. Sheets of it slapped …

One lock-screen message changed everything. I wasn’t looking for drama—I just picked up his iPad. But what I read (and the ‘baby daddy’ attached to it) made me realize my wedding was a setup. #25 Read More

Rain hit the tall windows of Aunt Betty’s Victorian like it had a personal grudge. It did not fall in any soft, poetic way. It attacked. Sheets of it slapped …

One lock-screen message changed everything. I wasn’t looking for drama—I just picked up his iPad. But what I read (and the ‘baby daddy’ attached to it) made me realize my wedding was a setup. #26 Read More

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #2 Read More

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #3 Read More

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my …

I was fifteen, completely deaf in one ear, and being returned to the foster system for the third time when a massive, mud-covered man with a three-legged pitbull blocked my social worker’s car and refused to move. #4 Read More

Rain hit the tall windows of Aunt Betty’s Victorian like it had a personal grudge. It did not fall in any soft, poetic way. It attacked. Sheets of it slapped …

One lock-screen message changed everything. I wasn’t looking for drama—I just picked up his iPad. But what I read (and the ‘baby daddy’ attached to it) made me realize my wedding was a setup. #18 Read More