00:00They just put me in a middle place and told me, hey, you have issues, try to put me on
00:04medication.
00:06That didn't work. So I packed my bags and I ran away that night. I went to my grandmother's house.
00:11I told my grandma what was going on. She said, you're going to stay here. So she had my aunt
00:15go
00:15pick my brother up from school and brought him over there. We were at my grandmother's for like
00:19a month. I felt safe. I could sleep. He brought my mom to the house to pick me and my
00:23brother up.
00:24After we get back home to the house, the touching and the guilt stopped. He me like really bad this
00:32time. It was just horrible. By that time, I had started my period. I was pregnant by this dude at
00:3816. Anyways, I didn't even know I was pregnant. Right. I just knew my clothes wasn't fitting anymore.
00:44She took me to the doctor. Right. Mind you, just he's still with my mom. And my mom tells him
00:49I got
00:49knocked up by somebody at like she makes up this whole thing. And I'm looking like now,
00:54mind you, I'm 16 years old. I have no consent back then. This is back in the 80s. My mom
00:59gets
01:00me an abortion at 16 years old. I woke up. I was in the hospital. And then next thing you
01:05know,
01:05I'm back at home. Ran away again. I was gone for like till I was like 18. I didn't come
01:10back around
01:11until my mom got sick and she was in a hospital and she needed somebody to take care of her.
01:16He put
01:16my brother out because my brother didn't want to go to the military. So he put my brother out
01:19at 17 years old. We went and reported to the police and they said we have to have
01:24evidence. At that point, I got hooked on myself.
