My Mother Had Me Handcuffed at Work Over My Own Car Until the Evidence She Missed Changed Everything

an hour, fifteen hours a week. I told myself it was for independence. The truth was simpler. I had stopped expecting anything from Loretta, and I needed to build a floor under myself before the ground gave way entirely.

By the time I left for college I was working three jobs simultaneously. I paid my own tuition supplements, my own textbooks, my own continue reading …