The Best Experience Of My Life

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Although, I would not consider my childhood the best experience of my life, I do not consider it the worst period either. There were definitely many ups and downs that were experienced by my siblings and me. My mother and father had six children together. There were four boys and two girls. I grew up in a small town in Colfax, Louisiana, and was raised by my parents and my paternal grandmother. My siblings and I did not always get along, but we loved one another. My survival story begins with the loss of my oldest brother. I feel like the period before that was manageable and the experiences were just a part of life. I moved out of my parents’ house at the age of seventeen. I went to live with my cousin and her family, which was in the same

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