I was alive but not living. I was looking for love in all the wrong places. I never felt loved from my mother, and my father was not in my life. I thought men loved me but evidently not enough to marry me. By the time I was twenty-three years old, I was a single parent with four kids and no husband. It was hard raising four young kids with no education to fall back on. Some nights there was only enough food for the kids to eat. I cried myself to sleep many nights. I worked long hours making…

I did a lot of dumb stuff.

Dad tried to kill me.

I became violent.

I survived four overdoses, alcohol poisoning, and one major accident.

I had a 56-thousand-pound coil fall off my trailer…

I grew up in an abusive home. My father was an alcoholic. My Dad tried to kill me because he felt…

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Saved at Death’s Door. Say no to death. Say no to... I am 14 years old, and I have escaped death more than once. When I was four or five years old, I was at home with my family. My sister, Michele, and I were messing around wrestling. My brother was two and he didn’t like that we were wrestling. He was on the kitchen counter and he threw a toy car at me. It hit me in the forehead. My mom just told me to take my hand off my head. I seemed to be fine, but when I took my hand off, blood shot…