25 years ago I gave birth to this beautiful girl, but for months before I had her, I dreamed I was going to be having a demon-like creature rip out of me. “How could anything good come out of me?,” I thought. Also, I knew that although I couldn’t keep her, I could not just […]
It was Y2K New Year’s Eve the night my uncle first began making advances toward me. I was 12 years old and he was 19, married, with a 2 year old son. My mom allowed his family to move in with us, and inexplicably moved them into my bedroom, since my three sisters were already sharing […]