A Seventh Grader Goes to College
by Paula Armes
Category: Biography & Autobiography

I was born to a couple who already had three children, so I was not a welcomed pregnancy. Although I was born normal, something happened ten years later that would change my life forever. In school, I was never a well-liked child. I was overweight, and when the accident happened I went from people pretending I was not there to getting ridiculed, mocked, and tormented. When we moved to my uncle's, I experienced the raging lashes of a belt on my back from a menacingly cruel uncle. Even before the accident happened, I was a child who had admiration for people who had their education, and I wanted education for myself. However, for a while the experience from school and home turned my head from education to someone I could love who would love me. Life is hard when all you want is the love you cannot find. After violent arguments and busted lips and bruises from both of my ex-husbands, I eventually got a divorce and headed back to school.