My father worked construction and never held a job for long. Consequently until about ten years old we moved all around the country. By the fifth grade I had attended sixteen different schools. My mother and father split when I was 11 years old and my brother and I were placed in a children's home, education wasn't a big thing with the directors of this place. You could go to school when your chores were done but if you didn't that was ok because they always had more work for you. I was lucky; I had a 5th grade teacher I had a crush on so I went any chance I...more
