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Growing up, I never really thought electricity was necessary.  Probably because most of the time, my parents struggled to pay the bills and we often had ‘campouts’ in the living room where we could use all the blankets and pillows to build forts to sleep in.  I always thought it was all in good fun, but realized later it was more of…

I knew the party was a mistake before we even arrived.  The mistake was the simple fact Jacob was going to be there.  I never knew what Melissa saw in him or that three years later, she had still not gotten over him.  I’m not sure what it was going to take to pull her away from him.  He had cheated…

“You don’t need to tell me what to do anymore,” I said out loud.  I was rehearsing what to say to my stepmother.  I was never at the top of her list of people she wanted to treat fairly and now that we had just spend the last week mourning and burying my father, I…