Spring 2004

Drew,
  My dear brother, I hope that you are proud of the young woman I am becoming. I am working hard at finishing my last year of High school and getting ready for the new chapter in my life of being an Adult. I have decided to join the United States Navy. I think that it will be good for me and help me get out of this one horse town. Moving here was the best and worst decision that I made. It was the best because Mom and I are closer then ever and she is so proud of me. It was the worst because of the many trials that I was put thru while living here.
      Dad although he doesn't come out right and say it treats me like crap to put it plainly. Over the course of the last 5 years I have learned to hate him and the step monster as I call her. They have always treated me different even though they say they don't. I know deep down inside that it is not our kids, its her kid and their kids. They treat their kids so much better then they have me. In the first year things were great and I felt very welcome, but as time went on things started to change and not for the better.
     One of the worst incidents that sticks out in my mind was the day that the Monster literally spanked my butt until I could not sit down, she left a huge bruise that I had to try to explain to Couch what happen. So what happen well the Monster thought that it would be smart to keep hitting me, spanking she says, with a 2x4, she hit me a total of 64 times.
      They wonder why I tried to run away, I was not happy there and did not want to be there anymore, but no one would listen. They had everyone convinced that I was the troubled youth and that it was all in my head.
   I am sorry to lay this out like this but sometimes you just have to get things out or they will eat you from the inside out. 
     But now that I am so close to graduating I am just biding my time. I am looking forward to the change of not being apart of their family and making a life for my self, a life that I am happy with and that I am worth having.

                                            Wish me Luck
                                                Lots of Love
                                                      Sissy