Good People Born Into A Bad Home

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I always believed that the good came to the good people and the bad came to the bad ones. This is also why I believe it to be so much harder for a good person to come out of a bad place and lifestyle. This was the reason that those born into a bad home and those born into a bad family had it so much harder, they not only have to escape a life that they’ve lived for years but they also have to battle the bad that is around them. In their family, friends, environment, wherever it may be. I am finally finished getting ready for school although I spent most of it theorizing when I should have been shampooing. I rush downstairs juggling my jacket, binders and bag in one hand and buttoning my pants with the other. Somehow I have it all together by the time I reach the kitchen. I search the pantry and don’t find much so I grab up my things and I’m on my way to school.
“Hey! Look, it’s the vampire, careful she might hiss at us and run away to her cave.” Some guy says, I don’t even know his name. Everyone laughs, I laugh too. I don’t laugh to be rude or mean back, but
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Then, once I am outside I get out my book and sit down on the porch swing. Not everything is bad. Most people I know who have hard home lives have to deal with financial issues and two parents who fight constantly. You see, my mom works hard for what we have, so hard she is working herself to death and she never allows a break. Days off are rare, time with her is rarer. My dad and her still fight, over visitation and money, but she knows she will get her way in the end because the courts always back her. At least they aren’t under the same roof anymore. I was sad and cried a lot when I heard they were divorcing back in 2009 but I realized maybe one of them or even both could finally move on and find new happiness. I realized I loved them both, but I was selfish and thought of how good it would feel to go to bed and not hear yelling from the

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