When I was younger I had no idea how my life would turn out. Most people don’t. Usually, little girls dream of getting married or being princesses. I can remember wanting to be a doctor or the president when I was a child. When I was 15 I ran away from home. I was in and out of juvenile detention and children’s homes until I was 16. At 16 I got married so that I would be emancipated. At that time I thought I had life all figured out. I dropped out of high school and started

I committed the crime that I went to prison for when I was 19 years old. My brother and I thought that this was the only way that we could get out of this sexually and physically abusive situation that had been ongoing for years. We had experienced this prison existence for long enough and needed to be released. We took the person’s life and 4 months later was arrested. I went to jail/prison with no legitimate education. I was 1 semester away from graduation when the abuser m