CHAPTER FOUR: “Discovery”

Shortly after I got my apartment I requested visitation to see my daughter. Maria had her mother bring over my daughter for a supervised visit where I had been planning on having her for the entire weekend alone. Instead I got about a 45 minute visit before her mother left with my child, as if…

Upon my decision to destroy the naive ignorance to how life was outside of the walls of my upbringing I decided that in order to accomplish this I would have to experience that which I feared and what was unfamiliar to me. Without my parent’s knowledge, since dancing was not allowed, I attended my first…

Discipline was strictly enforced in what was left of my family. “Spare the rod, spoil the child” was the given motto. Not that I wasn’t the perfect child, but I did occasionally try to push things as far as I could get them to go. There was that fine line of antagonization that meant I’d…

Preface I started writing this a long time ago, when I was 27. It was a project. To delve into the past and relive vivid memories. To remember, to write, from brain to the keyboard without holding back. To get personal, to be as transparent and as uncaring about consequences as possible. To show “me”.…