The factors that interrupted my education were caused by decisions that I made beginning in high school in upstate New York. I was a very good student. I used school as an escape from things that were happening at home. I was being molested by a family member and school became a place that I was safe. Homework was a time when I could be alone and focus on things other than what was happening in my life. I quit high school in my senior year to get married and free myself from the molestation. I gave up a scholarship to Cazenovia College and an invitation to the White House to meet President Reagan. I married a boy that had just joined the military. He was stationed in Georgia, which became my new home. Unfortunately, he became physically abusive.
