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tell my mom, call her at work to tell or when I would see her after school but she would tell me to stop whining and causing trouble. I was truly 11 years old and alone in the world. Genital stage by Freud (Puberty and later) and Adolescence stage by Erikson (12-18 years old) This stage is where my life went from being alone to being alone in hell. I moved to Reno, Nevada with my dad, step mom and three step siblings in 6th grade. I was told at around age 12 by my stepmother, who said it came from my dad, that my mom would leave me in the crib all day and only attended to my needs when she was forced. This information was devastating to me, it did however explain why she treated me different than the others. I went to the Ghetto junior high …show more content…

By the time I was fifteen, I couldn’t wait to get out of their house, I took a night job and got good grades, I was going to join the Navy. I was 15 years and 4 months old when I moved out of my mother’s house. I was a sophomore in high school, worked nights at Little Caesar’s pizza and maintained a 3.65 GPA. I did move out four months after my fifteenth birthday, May 1991. The beatings had become too much to bare when I asked my mom to take me to the store to buy make up with my own money and within thirty minutes I was being called names by my step dad and punched in the face two times. I grabbed my coat and left forever. I am thirty-nine now and have never gone back. I lived on couches, in garages and finally bought a car and lived in it. I had no driver’s license, but I needed a home and transportation. I was trying to keep my life together and finish my dreams, I did enrolled myself into military school for what would have been my junior year of high school, but I had a twenty-five year old boyfriend who loved to party so when I wasn’t at work I was with him drinking. This lead to me dropping out of high

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