Eleanor Roosevelt said “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” One wise man said “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” In life, not everyone is born with a silver spoon in his or her mouth. When I was very young, and we were living in ltaly, my parents got divorced. My mom decided to take my sister and me to the United States to find greener pastures. When my mom saw that things were getting difficult for her in the US, she decided to send my sister and me to Ghana to live with my aunt. I was a seven years old bubbly, beautiful, outspoken
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He kept taking us to his place to have fun with other kids. One day, his younger brother called me to his room. I thought that he was calling me to give me toffees to share with my sister as he always did. He was telling me that I was a very beautiful girl and when I grow up the person, who gets me, has gotten a treasure. I just said thank you to him and I told him that I had to I leave to play with the other kids. Immediately after said I wanted to leave, he ran to the door and locked the door and threw the key in his pocket and told me that was not leaving anywhere. I began shivering, and I froze, and became speechless and became afraid of him instantly. He started undressing me. I started crying, but he did not stop; he said to me that it was not painful, but it was painful. I was felt very unclean and I wanted to commit suicide because the man who I trusted raped me. When I got home, I wanted to tell my aunt, but I stopped because I knew she would say I was a bad girl. So, I kept it to myself and vowed not to go there anymore. To fire to the matter, my mother’s brother came to visit us in the house because he just came from the states to see his kids who were living with us; he then brought nice things to his kids and my aunt then told him what u brought to your
He kept taking us to his place to have fun with other kids. One day, his younger brother called me to his room. I thought that he was calling me to give me toffees to share with my sister as he always did. He was telling me that I was a very beautiful girl and when I grow up the person, who gets me, has gotten a treasure. I just said thank you to him and I told him that I had to I leave to play with the other kids. Immediately after said I wanted to leave, he ran to the door and locked the door and threw the key in his pocket and told me that was not leaving anywhere. I began shivering, and I froze, and became speechless and became afraid of him instantly. He started undressing me. I started crying, but he did not stop; he said to me that it was not painful, but it was painful. I was felt very unclean and I wanted to commit suicide because the man who I trusted raped me. When I got home, I wanted to tell my aunt, but I stopped because I knew she would say I was a bad girl. So, I kept it to myself and vowed not to go there anymore. To fire to the matter, my mother’s brother came to visit us in the house because he just came from the states to see his kids who were living with us; he then brought nice things to his kids and my aunt then told him what u brought to your