Blog Action Day: I know I’m lucky

My mom didn’t graduate from high school but she did get her GED. She didn’t continue her education because she got married and had a child instead. She was divorced a few years later before her second child, me, was even born. This left my mom stuck in city far from any family, working as a waitress and trying to support two young children. Add to that an abusive and philandering ex-husband who fought her for custody but refused to pay child support. And this was before deadbeat dad laws.

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