The Discarded Daughter's Rise

but for me, it was the day my hard work, my straig

randmother slapped me, calling me a "

ppearances, had vanished weeks prio

, tossing a few crumpled bills and driving off,

car not hers, until finally, it was my Grandma Rose who save

e, and my grandmother, with her meager social security,

ed, engaged to a wealthy businessman, dragging me

lap from my mother for making her "look bad" and finally, b

et back to Grandma Rose, the only

needing an expensive surgery my parents coldly refus

roken, but also with a cold,

ral, complaining about the "inconvenience" of her death

ne being

iet, and told her to get out, but n

d relentlessly, and when I emerged as the state's t

them again, broken and desperate for money, and coolly

ve on my own terms, I realized I had not only broken