Personal Narrative: Breaking Up A Woman's Home

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One year later the identical lie, luxury life with a different man who held a legal job and worked hard resurfaced. Lorenzo, the love of my life that’s the first time a man proposed to me. Until I found out at three months pregnant with my oldest daughter (Ka’Neka Unique Roberson) he had not completed his divorce. I became furious and scared that there a possibility my baby wasn’t going to make it due to my miscarriage one year prior for the same reasons. I didn’t want children at all, especially not out of wedlock. My goal was to help take care of my family and their children. However, God saw a different fit, I was never going to be the cause of breaking up a woman’s home, rather through him leaving her by marrying me or an outside child …show more content…
That’s overwhelming for a young lady with dreams, experiencing unfortunate and unwanted mishaps with broken trust, battered issues, life threat if I leave by possessive men, and with my mother’s men who were equivalent to scum. I prayed although I was my mother child cycle of life has become a part of my journey in a different way. I use to believe I was cursed as a child, my mom sins repeated itself through her children. I take accountability for two life choices and/or actions. The others was forced upon me. If I didn’t experience those life events I wouldn’t be able to relate to the diverse challenges of others. I ended my modeling career when I discovered I was pregnant so I had to go to work to make up the difference I couldn’t work a second job being pregnant. Trying to maintain the level of income to cover all of our needs I became accustomed to. Here I go one again making an unwise choice first, dating a dealer, now dealing myself for six months. I became a person I thought I would never become. Utilizing sources from my first boyfriend while taking his advice to never get my hands dirty. Through his connections I rebuilt my finances not proud just being

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