Entry 8

I wasn't ready. I couldn't tell him that I was pregnant. I wasn't ready to ruin a life. So I kept quiet. I ignored it. I went away. Disappeared. A traveling adventure to sell books and magazines door to door. I didn't want to go. I pleaded with my mom to reconsider but she wasn't listening. So one evening I found myself on a bus with strangers headed to VA. I was sad. How was it okay to send your kid away with strangers? My mom said that this would be a great experience for me. I believed her. At least I wanted her to be right. Truth is, I wasn't fully convinced. I had a life growing inside of me that only I knew about and now I was off away from everything that was familiar. How it played out was anything less than crazy. This part of my journey I call abort...abort...only because I should have ditched the bus and went in a whole other direction. But I stayed. What happened next blew my mind. I was forever changed...