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Going into fifth grade my Father married our Stepmother and we moved into the city. Calling Slocomb a city is like calling Dothan “Birmingham”. Trust me, that killed in Alabama. We’d been living on my Father’s bosses property in a trailer that belonged to us. We had love if nothing else. When our Stepmother entered

Anxiety

In Kindergarten our handwriting teacher freaked out on me. I was a Lefty and it was not okay. She was not fucking around. She screamed at me for a while. Thank goodness that’s all she did. I cannot write with my right hand, and I could tell she really wanted to mess up my left