I Left Home With 200 Dollars After My Family Called Me Unstable Then My Sister Found My Name Online

had two hundred dollars in my wallet, a bus ticket to Portland saved on my phone, and my grandmother’s wooden box tucked under my arm, still sealed because I wasn’t ready to open it yet. I did not look back once.

By the following Sunday, my mother had already told the women’s ministry at Ridgewood First Baptist that I was receiving care at a residential continue reading …