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“No! Please don’t burn that!” I screamed while my father threw my grandmother’s handmade quilt into a flaming barrel behind our house.

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quilt clung to my hair.

That night ended my childhood.

And began my survival.

I started with absolutely nothing.

I moved into a youth shelter and shared a cramped drafty room with three runaway girls. To survive, I worked overnight shifts at a filthy highway gas station making nine dollars and fifty cents an hour. I studied beneath buzzing fluorescent continue reading …

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