BUT
GOD M
KEPT ME
y father decided he would move on and start another family, so I didn’t get the experience of my father showing me how a man was to treat his woman. Instead, I witnessed how a man was abusing his woman, that woman was my mother. I witnessed that for about 7 years until my mother had enough and decided to move us back to NY. That was when I encountered my first experience of abuse, 19 years old with a 5-year-old child and 1 on the way. From this man taking my money and leaving me with nothing to support myself and my child, to dragging me across the floor because he could not find a lighter, or he could not get more money for his drugs. The abuse stopped when he went to prison, and I moved south, to start a new life with 2 children and another on the way.
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PAIN. HEALING. ENDURANCE
