The Day I Became Free

, saved every penny to buy my mom, Maria, a warm winter coat. I even clung to a fragile

. She looked at me, then at the gaming system, and declared, "Why spend money when you have all that gratitude? It's not like it does

an ungrateful, destructive monster to the whole country. They exposed selective, ugly moments, cheering a

abricating a monstrous version of her daughter for a new gaming console? W

heir manipulations, their true cruelty revealed to the world. And as the public' s outrage turned the vote de