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

once, in my own voice, the truth of who I actually was and what I had actually built. Not unstable. Not erratic. Not a cautionary tale whispered at Sunday services. Just a woman who left home with two hundred dollars and came back seven years later carrying something no one in that family could ever again take from her.

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