My Family Took My Car And Demanded Five Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars

the car theft was not disloyalty. It was self-protection. And they were counting on my reluctance to hold them accountable. That was how they had always controlled me.

After we hung up I sat at Amy’s kitchen table with a notebook and made what I thought of as an independence plan. I needed my belongings retrieved. I needed housing. I needed transportation.continue reading …